How configure X11 Forwarding in RHEL7, CentOS7

1) Install the following packages
yum install -y xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-apps

2) Enable X11 Fowarding
grep -i X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Should be set to Yes

3) Logoff and login as
ssh -Y user@host

4) Test
xclock& , xeyes&

A dump of the sshd_config on my test server

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grep -v ^#  /etc/ssh/sshd_config  | grep -v ^$ AddressFamily inet HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV LogLevel VERBOSE PermitRootLogin without-password MaxAuthTries 5 AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys PasswordAuthentication yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication no GSSAPIAuthentication yes GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes UsePAM yes AllowAgentForwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no X11Forwarding yes UsePrivilegeSeparation yes AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL LANGUAGE AcceptEnv XMODIFIERS Subsystem       sftp    /usr/libexec/openssh/sftp-server

Troubleshooting

xclock&
Error: Can’t open display:

To fix this, I did the following:
rm /root/.Xauthority
systemctl restart sshd

Logout and login to create new /root/.Xauthority

AddressFamily inet
For some servers it only works by forcing to IPv4 only. AddressFamily should be set to inet(IPv4)

grep Family /etc/ssh/sshd_config
AddressFamily inet

man sshd_config
AddressFamily
Specifies which address family should be used by sshd(8). Valid arguments are “any”, “inet” (use IPv4 only), or “inet6” (use IPv6 only). The default is “any”.

X11 forwarding bug in SSH if IPv6 on the system is disabled.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/225642/95470

It does work on a different RHEL 7.1 server though with AddressFamily set to “any”.

Still not working
May be the server is behind a firewall. Where I work, I have to authenticate with the firewall to get this working.

 

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