Re: Problems with OpenSSH and X11 forwarding

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 01/31/02 

From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 31 Jan 2002 10:21:33 -0500

>>>>> "FW" == Frank Winkler <frank.winkler@germany.sun.com> writes:

>> You certainly *don't* want to use the environment file to set your
>> DISPLAY variable, as it is set dynamically by sshd for the
>> forwarding.

    FW> Absolutely correct, but where the hell did I mention to set
    FW> DISPLAY?!? I was talking about something like XAUTHORITY ...

You didn't say what environment variable you were talking about, at all.
And since the only one you did mention in any context was DISPLAY, I
thought I'd point out that this would be a mistake -- one that people
often make.

As for the "where the hell" part -- if you want to be rude, you can go
solve your own problem. 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net

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