OpenSSH on Reliant UNIX

[Kevin Steves]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Bladt Norbert wrote:
:     3. X11 forwarding does just work for standard X clients
: 	- if you configure it with --with-ipaddr-display -
: 	but not for all X applications. The reason is that
: 	Siemens is using a named pipe in /tmp/.X11-unix
: 	for X communication where every other OS uses
: 	a socket, there and some applications try hard to figure out
: 	whether they are really running locally. I think to
: 	avoid the TCP/IP and the UNIX domain socket protocol
: 	stack to gain a few percent of performance.

if they don't provide a way to force the use of TCP for the X11
transport, i don't know what we can do.  HP-UX for example has
XFORCE_INTERNET=1 to disable the shared memory transport in clients, or
using an IP address in DISPLAY.