[TriLUG] SSH display variable being set incorrectly

Owen Berry trilugbucket at berrybunch.net
Mon Nov 29 12:33:59 EST 2004


Managed to get the problem sorted out. Something had changed in
/etc/security/pam_env.conf after an update somewhere down the road,
which was setting the display.

Owen

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:29:44AM -0500, Owen Berry wrote:
> I have this problem recently where when I connect to my home machine
> via SSH the DISPLAY variable gets set according to the host I came
> from (example dargo.trilug.org:0.0) instead of using the SSH tunnel
> (example localhost:10.0). If I set the DISPLAY manually everything
> works fine, so it's not that X forwarding is not working.
> 
> Any suggestions on why this would be happening?
> 
> Thanks,
> Owen
> 



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