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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: ssh -X forwarding fails
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800, Peter Gatsoulis wrote:

> also doing "env" shows me that there IS NO "DISPLAY"
> variable present in either the remote or local
> machines.
>=20
> I suspect this is the problem???

Yep.  You have to set DISPLAY to the correct value before ssh'ing,
otherwise ssh has no idea which display you want X traffic forwarded
to.  It should usually be something like ":0.0" to indicate the
primary local display, but it doesn't always have to be.

Kris

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