This has been bugging me for a long time, but it's supposed to be simple. I'd like to get an X app on a remote system to display on my local workstation tunneling through SSH. Supposedly, it's supposed to be as simple as ssh'ing in and running the app. I _can_ get this to work as expected on my FreeBSD system, but never on any of my Mandrake boxes. I think the part that's getting me is the $DISPLAY environment setting.
For example, here's what I get when I ssh into my FreeBSD box: --- # echo $DISPLAY pepe.home.gory.org:10.0 --- And here's what I get when I ssh into any of my Mandrake machines: --- # echo $DISPLAY --- For local machines behind my firewall, I've resorted to running 'xhost +<host>' locally, ssh'ing to the other machine, exporting to my display back to my workstation and then 'xhost -<host>'ing. AFAIK, it shouldn't have to be this difficult. And this doesn't lend itself to exporting displays through the firewall onto my internal LAN from machines hundreds of miles away. Going to the openssh page, there's been a problem with Mandrake 7.2 and it's Xauthority settings (http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.7), but does this problem still plague the 8.x versions of Mandrake? I've got the following in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config: X11Forwarding yes And in /etc/ssh/ssh_config: ForwardAgent yes ForwardX11 yes What am I missing? Thanks, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE "The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
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