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Re: X11 Forwarding

Subject: Re: X11 Forwarding
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:45:28 PST
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 08:19:36 -0500 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
writes:
No, it's finding the FQDN from /etc/resolv.conf & /etc/hosts.  That's
not
the problem.  "ssh foobar" does get to the foobar host.

That doesn't matter.  ssh(1) matches what you actually TYPE, not what
the hostname resolves to in DNS.  Example:

Oh.  Mea culpa.  You're right.  I got it to work now (with "trusted"
because the
app is KDE :-(  ).  Guess I trusted the config files too much.  I mean,
the 
sample file said "Host *", so I figured if it took wildcards it could do
full name
resolution w/ nicknames.  Apologies to all I blew-off about using "ssh -X
...".


Paul Rogers  (paul.rogers@juno.com)
http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/
http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/
Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL 
:-)

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