What is Red Hat's recommendation regarding ssh "X11 Forwarding" ?

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Issue

  • According to an audit requirement from an organization RHEL servers should have "X11 forwarding" disabled in sshd_config file. What does Red Hat recommend regarding this ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • SSH (X11 Forwarding)

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