title: more aix annoyances: ssh -X doesn’t work link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/more-aix-annoyances-ssh-x-doesnt-work/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 654 created: 2007/08/28 14:39:00 created_gmt: 2007/08/28 14:39:00 comment_status: open post_name: more-aix-annoyances-ssh-x-doesnt-work status: publish post_type: post

more aix annoyances: ssh -X doesn’t work

subtitle: “Screw IBM and the horse that it rode in on!”

Like Sun Solaris, IBM AIX apparently implements it’s own weird build and defaults for ssh that prevents using the “ssh -X” trick to get seamless access to X apps on remote servers from working. OK, so RedHat for it’s part has by default locked down Gnome and XWindows so that you can’t do X into or out of a RedHat (or Fedora) box using telnet with the old “xhost +” and “export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0” trick either (well, there is a workaround, see a future post for the details).

So there. We’re even. No interoperability between UNIX systems supposedly all using the same open source components.

More bullsh*t to deal with. Thanks Big Blue. I hope you choke on your own patchsets.

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