X server refusing remote clients

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Feb 14 21:26:39 UTC 2005


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Douglas Frank wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time, Paul.  As you will see, the FC3 box is named
> "caplock":
> 
> [frank at caplock ~]$ ssh -Y and
> frank at and's password: 
> Last login: Fri Feb 11 16:44:42 EST 2005 from caplock.zk3.dec.com
> Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650); Fri Nov 22 09:07:12 EDT 2002
> ...motd cruft...
> No mail.
> and.frank>unsetenv DISPLAY

Why do you do 'unsetenv'?. ssh X11 forwarding has set up a nice
display variable for you to do remote x securely - why not use it?

Satish

> and.frank>oclock
> Error: Can't open display: 
> and.frank>setenv DISPLAY caplock:0
> and.frank>oclock
> Error: Can't open display: caplock:0
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:23 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > What *exactly* did you do on each end of the connection?
> 
> 




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