Am 10. Apr, 2002 schwätzte Thomas Mondoshawan Tate so:

> Anybody have any success in forwarding X11 ports with OpenSSH? I'm
> attempting to do this simple task by starting the SSH session from an xterm
> like so:
>
> [crystaldragon:~]$ ssh -C -X thing
>
> But when I successfully establish the connection to thing, $DISPLAY is not
> set. Thing and Crystaldragon are both running the same version of OpenSSH,
> compiled exactly the same way on both sides. Additionally, the config files
> are the same (they also have X11Forwarding set to yes in the
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/ssh/ssh_config files). Additionally, the
> /tmp/.X11-unix file doesn't exist. Any ideas?

Does thing have xauth?

ciao,

der.hans
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