Re: ssh doesn't stop prompting for password [SOLVED]
Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make
the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just
directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure.
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Vadim Kutsyy wrote:
> Joseph Dane wrote:
> > local> ssh -X remote
> > remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo
> > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case)
> > won't know how to contact the X server.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will
> create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster. I am
> aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding. So
> the only way there is via regular forwarding.
>
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