On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:21:28AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * Crispin Wellington (crispin@aeonline.net) spake thusly: > > On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > ... > > > I fail to understand why you came up with the example above. No one > > > have suggested or commented any such thing. > > > > I wasn't subscribed when the first post came in so Im exempt. But I > > agree completely. Leave out the export DISPLAY. > > > > Doing the above *works* but bypasses any X forwarding ssh sets up for > > you and sends the X forwarding directly to the client without > > encryption. In fact the default DISPLAY setting on a -X login is > > connected to the server itself... Crispin, it does *not* work, at least not in Woody. And, as Joseph Dane pointed out, it will *not* bypass, the ssh tunnel. > Crispin, Hans: I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. > Which part of "ssh won't forward X connections if *local* DISPLAY is > not set" escapes you? Try this at home: > > client # export DISPLAY= > client # ssh -X server > server # netscape > > If local $DISPLAY is not set, ssh assumes X is not running on local > machine, so there is nowhere to forward X connections *to*. Is that > so hard to figure out? No, it's not. But: 1. The tip did not work. 2. Even *if* it had work, it would not have been a very good NEWBIE tip. IMHO a much better tip is client~>ssh -X server server~>netscape *Not* messing with $DISPLAY is a *good* rule of thumb for a newbie. There are situations where it is needed, though. I have self used it once or twice. > An experienced unix user would probably know to try > both, but a newbie will simply turn around and decide that Great > Debian Newbie Tips database is not worth crap. Indeed. -- Note that I use Debian version 3.0 Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 sön feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown Hans Ekbrand
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