begin quoting what Kent West said on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 08:16:29PM -0600: > > westek[westk]:/home/westk> > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: westek:10.0 > > [1]+ Exit 1 gqview > > > So, progress has been made. My DISPLAY env. var. is now being set. But > it still doesn't work. On the box you're SSH-ing FROM, do an xhost + first and see if it suddenly works. > But what I find interesting is that from what I've understood from > everything I've read (including the man page for ssh), the command line > option -X overrides the config files. But this experiment seems to > indicate that to not be the case. Command line options can override the ssh config on the client end, but not the sshd config on the server end. That'd be a security no-no.
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