SSH -X doesn't work without an export DISPLAY

harold molly hjnmolly at hetnet.nl
Sat Jul 7 08:36:15 UTC 2007


Is there specific configuration required to connect to the
ssh daemon on the destination server, solaris sshd man page?

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 17:04 +0200, Michel Dubois wrote:
> Sorry, 
> 
> The Y option is not implemented yet on the SUN SSH client. Too easy :)
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 05 July 2007 16:36:56 Matthew Galgoci wrote:
> > > > When you set the $DISPLAY variable, do you set it to a localhost:#, or
> > > > to hostname.foo.bar:#?  If you are doing the latter, then it isn't
> > > > using a secure channel, but using normal X over TCP connections.
> > >
> > > Jonh,
> > >
> > > In the both case, I can't get the X11forward
> > >
> > > I have to export the DISPLAY env.
> > > Very strange, I have 2 SOLARIS server, and I did :
> > > workstation~#: ssh -X SUN_server1
> > > SUN_server1~#: ssh -X SUN_server2
> > >
> > > xcalc display apears from the SUN_server2 on my LINUX workstation without
> > > problem
> > >
> > > In the stuck case I did :
> > > workstation~#: ssh -X SUN_server1
> > > SUN_server1~#: ssh -X redhat_host
> > >
> > > xcalc display doesn't appear, same if I export the DISPLAY
> > >
> > > anyway thanks for your help
> >
> > try doing ssh -X -Y SUN_server1
> 
> 
> 




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