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Re: Remote X login



On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:03:18PM -0000, marc wrote:
> I don't see anything in the debug info.
> 
> boom:~# ssh -v -X user@host 'echo $DISPLAY'
<snip>

No, neither do I. Try using '-vv', which gives a _lot_ of debug info.

> Without 'echo $DISPLAY', ssh completes the login successfully.

Yes that's ok: the 'echo $DISPLAY' argument is being executed instead of
giving you a login shell. It's just quicker to use for examples than log
in, run this, log out...

-- 
Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/



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