Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41154E0F.C0D8915F@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:47:59 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how can I set $REMOTEHOST ( so I can set $DISPLAY with sshd w\X11 forwarding) References: <41150C47.6030900@alltel.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com peter waltman wrote: > yeah. pretty much. I've set the "ForwardX11 yes" in the sshd_config file on > the server I log into and I've also set it in the ssh_config with the client I'm > using to log into it. > > piano{pwaltman}51: ssh -X grad107m > pwaltman@grad107m's password: > Last login: Fri Aug 6 19:16:42 2004 from lin04.eecs.tufts.edu > > pwaltman@GRAD107M ~ > $ echo $DISPLAY > 127.0.0.1:0 It could be that if DISPLAY is set before you run ssh -X then ssh won't change it. Try unsetting DISPLAY first. Also, make sure there's nothing in your profile/bashrc stuff on the remote host that messes with DISPLAY. > if $?REMOTEHOST > export DISPLAY=$REMOTEHOST:0.0 If you do this your X session is no longer tunneled through SSH, and thus not secure. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/