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* Thomas Mondoshawan Tate (mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org) wrote:
> Anybody have any success in forwarding X11 ports with OpenSSH? I'm
> attempting to do this simple task by starting the SSH session from an xterm
> like so:
>
> [crystaldragon:~]$ ssh -C -X thing
>

May I suggest 'f'!

     -f      Requests ssh to go to background just before command
         execution.  This is useful if ssh is going to ask for
         passwords or passphrases, but the user wants it in the
         background.  This implies -n.  The recommended way to start
         X11 programs at a remote site is with something like ssh -f
         host xterm.

Gontran