Explicitly change the DISPLAY variable in ssh

From: Divakara, Vivek Palyam (UMKC-Student) (vpdvdb_at_umkc.edu)
Date: 03/15/04

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    Hi,

    Can you please xplain me how to explicitly change the DISPLAY variable in ssh.

    The following is specified in "man ssh":
                 
                 "The user should
                 normally not set DISPLAY explicitly, as that will render the X11
                 connection insecure (and will require the user to manually copy
                 any required authorization cookies)."

    I have a program which starts in the remote machine thru ssh & connects to my Xserver from default ssh port localhost:10 & this program now listens for any new clients on some other port say unix:11 & forwards the clients to localhost:10. For this to work i need to change DISPLAY variable of the ssh terminal to unix:11. once i do this & start a Xclient i get an error message:

     " X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication".

    Can someone let me know how to change the DISPLAY variable of the ssh terminal

    Thanks
    Vivek

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