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[Gontran Zepeda]

* 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