Re: SSH X11 Setting the Display Variable

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 05:17, Chris Mirchandani <novashadow@xxxxxxx> wrote:
OK, I found one hole in this script. If I ssh in as any user, the script does what it is supposedto do and the DISPLAY variable value is left as set by ssh. However, if I su -l to another userDISPLAY=192.168.11.1:0.0. If I su to the same user without -l the DISPLAY variable value is leftas set by ssh when the initial user was logged in. Any ideas and/or suggestions?

I wouldn't have said that was a hole "per se", more a "feature" with
the way that `su -l` is designed to work. The point of the -l switch
is that the environment is set from a clean slate when entering the
new user context. This means that any pre-existing DISPLAY variable
will be blanked out along with the rest of the new shell's
environment. Then /etc/profile is run through to set up the initial
environment for said new shell, which will detect the lack of DISPLAY
variable and set up the default (192.168.11.1:0.0).

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Regards,
Daniel Llewellyn

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