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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 07:51:31 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Can't get ssh to forward X packets
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Jeff Nokes wrote:

> no changes.  When looking at the verbose output, no mention of X forwarding at
> all.  I know I'm doing it correctly:
>    ssh -X username AT host
> ... and I do log in successfully, but there's never a $DISPLAY variable set on
> the remote host, as there should be.  When I check $DISPLAY when logging in
> with SecureCRT, I can see it just fine, and X forwards perfectly.  So, the

What is $DISPLAY set to prior to running the ssh command?  If nothing,
try setting it to ":0".

Brian

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