X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: ssh config Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:50:52 -0500 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 h= ost, that AFAIK cannot be done globally (unless globing is accepted in the same config file). --=20 Ren=E9 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/