Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote: > Is there a way to enable X11 forwarding by default so that I don't have > to run "ssh -XY hostname" and can just run "ssh hostname"?
It doesn't work like that, those are two different commands, only the first creates the tunnel used by X11. > I found a way for me to do it via a ~/.ssh/config file but I'm looking > for a way to do it globally. I have seen it (on Linux systems) in > /etc/ssh/ssh_config before...I tried it on cygwin with no success. > Does openssh on cygwin look for the global configuration file in another > place or does it not support one at all? What you did in ~/.ssh/config was add the parameter (-X) for the specific host, that AFAIK cannot be done globally (unless globing is accepted in the same config file). -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
