Re: X Forwarding with openssh3.0.2

From: Neil W Rickert (rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu)
Date: 02/07/02 

From: Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 2002 18:25:16 GMT

Paul Haggerty <Paul.Haggerty@noaa.gov> writes:

>I need to connect to a SGI machine (from another SGI, both using
>openssh3.0.2p1) and then SU to root. Using the older openssh, all I
>needed to do was keep track of the DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY environment
>variables and set them once I became root.

>However, using the openssh3.0.2, the XAUTHORITY variable never gets
>set, instead SSH_CLIENT and SSH_TTY are set, but copying these
>has no effect.

>Is there something else I need to do in order to keep my X-windows
>after performing an SU?

Presumably you could do

        XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
        export XAUTHORITY

just before the "su".