DISPLAY variable

[Markus Friedl]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 07:58:08AM -0700, Phil Karn wrote:
> >did you try this?
> 
> >it did not work for me due to some strange libX/xauth
> >interactions. i'd prefer to have sshd listen to localhost
> >only.
> 
> Yes, it has always worked for me. I.e., I can manually say
> 
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:10.0
> 
> (using the correct display number, of course) and X forwarding from
> remote clients (e.g., emacs) running on that machine works fine. The
> environment here is Debian 2.2r3 on both ends.

i mean: does it work if you modify sshd to set DISPLAY to this
before xauth is called from sshd?

-m