Re: what causes "slogin -X" to not generate a "$DISPLAY" variable on the server?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:03:24 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:

> On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> Given that you are login on your own computers you can try with "-Y"
>> flag
>> (untrusted X11 forwarding) and see how it goes.
>>
>> Another test you can run is by creating a new user and launching
>> "slogin -X -vvv macs xterm" session from there.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help...
> 
> Neither the -Y option, nor trying a brand-new user made any difference.

And with both options, are you still getting the same log entries?
 
> Any more suggestions?  I'm still puzzled by this one!

Yup, it's not normal that it works from some clients but not for others.

Lets see, server's the same, is client what changes... mmm, you can 
compare the client openssh versions and look for any difference here and 
you can also try to run sshd (the server part) with debug mode turned on, 
there can be also something of interest here...

Besides... once you login, can you manually set the display environment 
variable fine and run xterm or it also fails?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón