getting ssh -X to work. (Was: sane access for non-root user)

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> 
> A quick workaround to initialize an up-to-date login environment is to 
> 'ssh -X localhost' from within a local shell...

I just tried that on my sarge system., whose ssh documentation does
mention ssh.  But in the new shell
  env did not give me an entry for DISPLAY
  emacs opened in text mode
  xjig said
    can't open display ''
Evidently, something more is needed than just ssh -X localhost.
some additional package maybe?

-- hendrik