Hi Vineet, I appreciate the help, but I know that setting the DISPLAY doesn't work either. I need to know what DOES work, or if this is a bug. How did you get X11 working on Debian running OpenSSH 3.4p1? Did it just magically work for you? Did you have to set something? -Anne This one time, Vineet Kumar wrote: > No, that's not right, either. If you have DISPLAY set in the environment > of the ssh client when it connects, and the remote sshd and local ssh > are instructed to allow it, ssh forwarding takes place. It gets set up > by creating a virtual X server on the remote machine and setting DISPLAY > there to that (something like remote:10.0). X clients run remotely > connect to that virtual X server, which simply acts as a sort of proxy > to send the X data through the ssh tunnel to the X server on the local > machine. > > So DISPLAY won't be set to the local ssh client machine. If it is, the X > clients will be sending their data straight to the local client over the > network, in the clear! (If the local X server is set to listen for it, > which it shouldn't be, and isn't by default on recent debian systems.) > > Once it's working, you shouldn't have to touch DISPLAY. (Except possibly > to make sure it's set to the right thing on the LOCAL side, before the > connection is ever attempted. That should only happen if your > environment is whacked for some other reason, though.) > > good times, > Vineet > -- > http://www.doorstop.net/ > -- > "Computer Science is no more about computers > than astronomy is about telescopes." -E.W. Dijkstra -- .-"".__."``". Anne Carasik, System Administrator .-.--. _...' (/) (/) ``' gator at cacr dot caltech dot edu (O/ O) \-' ` -="""=. ', Center for Advanced Computing Research ~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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