Why SSH X Forwarding does not work in RHEL7 ?

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Issue

  • SSH X Forwarding is broken in RHEL7
  • Xming is running and putty is configured with X11 forwarding settings, still do not see display variable.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • SSH X Forwarding

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