Re: rh linux 8.0 help 

This is only automatic if both the host from which you are running
ssh has it either configured in the /etc/ssh[2]/ssh_config file
or you specify -X or +x on the command line AND the target machine
is configured to allow X11 tunneling in its configuration file,
/etc/ssh[2]/sshd_config

The commercial version of ssh that you have compiled uses the
syntax +x instead of -X, so try that first.

- Colby

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James Colby Kraybill                       Radio Astronomy Laboratory
colby@astro.berkeley.edu           University of California, Berkeley




On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Zodiac Webster wrote:

> Hi Berkeley Linux Users,
>
> I am having trouble getting a linux  RH8 box to open windows up using
> ssh. The main purpose is to have a student log in to terminal A, ssh
> to terminal B and bring windows from terminal B over to show up on
> terminal A.  This usually works seemlessly with ssh. The true test
> that something is broken is that when i ssh from terminal A to
> terminal A, I get the same error message and no windows pop up. This
> is not true when I do B to B.
>
> I compiled ssh from ssh.com and the same version is on both
> computers. The 8.0 box is running something called ssh-agent whenever
> you log in.  When I kill off that process, the user is
> unceremoniously logged out.  I can't seem to locate where that
> process is started, nor why it is not configured correctly... What is
> this process and how can I stop it from running at login?
>
> First diagnostic: I can make windows on A pop up on A if I (under tcsh)
> setenv DISPLAY :0.0
> after the ssh login
> Why isn't the DISPLAY environment getting set automatically? Where
> does this get set normally?
>
> Second: If I ssh to B from A and then setenv DISPLAY to IPaddress:0.0
> the error message is approximately, cannot open display. I suspect
> there is some other way to specify the display when ssh is used, but
> it IS SUPPOSED TO BE AUTOMATIC! and it was on 7.3 (default factory
> install!).
>
> Invoking ssh with the -X flag does not fix the problem.
> zo
> former of berkeley, still a linux user
> ps - I can't install rh 7.3 on the problematic machine since it is
> not my machine.
> --
> Zodiac Webster			zwebster@csusb.edu
> Assistant Professor		Department of Physics
> CSU, San Bernardino		909-880-7593
>


