Remote login, then nothing happens

[Reid Thompson]

Andy Schmidgall wrote:

>
>
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> >>(and then a bunch of options)
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>cygwin-prompt> DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y user@server
> >>>do you then get a
> >>>Password:
> >>>prompt?
> >>>
> >>>If you do, and you enter your linux password, do you then get a prompt
> >>>on your linux box? If not, this question is probably not related to X
> >>>at all. Contact e.g. another cygwin list.
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>I get a password prompt, but after entering my password, nothing else
> >>happens. I do not get a command prompt after entering my password.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Does the same happen if you run "ssh -x" (note the lowercase) without
> >DISPLAY= and -Y?  If so, you may indeed have a general ssh issue -- 
> try to
> >get a working prompt first, and then set up X forwarding.
> >
> > 
> >
> ssh -x (lowercase) works just fine. I enter my password and immediately
> receive a command prompt.
>
> >One more place to check is your startup scripts on the remote machine.
> >Do they change the value of DISPLAY (they shouldn't -- it should be left
> >at whatever ssh sets it to)?  Do they try to launch an X client if 
> DISPLAY
> >is set (that could be what's causing the apparent "hang")?
> >       Igor
> >[*] Well, there are more configuration options to check, but the two
> >things above are required regardless of the configuration.
> > 
> >
> I don't see any scripts that would change the DISPLAY variable on the
> server. Also, if I ssh directly in to the server, "echo $DISPLAY" shows
> that the variable is empty. Should this have a value?
>
> If I kill the shell process on my windows machine, the xterm throws an
> error: "Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
> forwarding." and then logs me in to the server with a text command
> prompt. I'm not sure if this is important or anything.
>
> Thanks for the help so far.
>
> -Andy
>
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you have to use a capital X -- minor case x disables x forwarding -- see 
man ssh

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