How to run _X_ Session from RH8 via ssh -X?

[Doug VanLeuven]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> Why does  /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock still say "Error can't open display:"?
>> That looks like an explicit unsetting of DISPLAY, i.e. somewhere, probably
> your
>> .profile/.bashrc/.bash_profile, has a "unset DISPLAY".
>>
>> Starting in Cygwin:
>> $ echo $DISPLAY
>> :0
>> $ ssh -X root@x.y.z
>> # echo $DISPLAY
>> localhost:10.0
>>
>> Notice that ssh created a pseudo display that will be used to tunnel the X
>> protocol back to your local X server.
> 
> I did 
> ssh -X Administrator@x.y.z
> ls -A -1 | xargs grep -n DISPLAY *
> echo $DISPLAY
> 
> The only place DISPLAY occurred (in the output) was in the .bash_history
> file. Echo $DISPLAY gave a blank line only.
> 
> Any other suggestions?


On linux system:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
	X11Forwarding yes
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
	ForwardX11 yes

On cygwin system:
/etc/defaults/etc/sshd_config
	X11Forwarding yes
/etc/defaults/etc/ssh_config
	ForwardX11 yes

Doug

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