X11 through OpenSSH problems

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Author: Thomas Mondoshawan Tate
Date:  
Old-Topics: Linux Computer Store and Cafe
Subject: X11 through OpenSSH problems
Ehehe... Sorry about that mis-post -- thought I scrubbed those e-mail
headers clean, but missed the Subject line... =op

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate

http://tank.webhop.org

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:21:54AM -0700, Thomas Mondoshawan Tate wrote:
> Anybody have any success in forwarding X11 ports with OpenSSH? I'm
> attempting to do this simple task by starting the SSH session from an xterm
> like so:
>
> [crystaldragon:~]$ ssh -C -X thing
>
> But when I successfully establish the connection to thing, $DISPLAY is not
> set. Thing and Crystaldragon are both running the same version of OpenSSH,
> compiled exactly the same way on both sides. Additionally, the config files
> are the same (they also have X11Forwarding set to yes in the
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh/ssh_config files). Additionally, the
> /tmp/.X11-unix file doesn't exist. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
>
> http://tank.dyndns.org
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