Re: ssh -X problem

On 2004.05.05 21:02:56 +0200, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:

> does someone have an idea where this comes from :
> 
> bsd5: matlab
>   (works OK)
> ssh -X bsd5 : matlab
> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
>   Atom id in failed request:  0x169
>   Serial number of failed request:  9
>   Current serial number in output stream:  9

Recent ssh versions have extra client protection when doing SSH
forwarding...  This breaks some parts of X.  To disable the extra
security use the -Y parameter to ssh.  See the ssh manual page for more
information about this.

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Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team