On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 04:49 PM, K Montgomery wrote:
> I have a handy piece of script that I put in the .bash_profile of my > Solaris account so that whenever I log in using SSH, my DISPLAY > variable > is automatically set to the IP I'm SSH-ing from: > > if [ "$SSH_CLIENT" != "" ]; then > export DISPLAY=`echo $SSH_CLIENT | cut -d " " -f1`:0 > fi > > This code is for bash, but I'm sure it can easily be adapted to any > shell. But that's a programming matter. :) Of course, if you just set > the DISPLAY variable manually every time, that will work, too. > > It's been my experience that the DISPLAY just doesn't get set > automatically when logging into Solaris; whether it's really supposed > to, I don't know. Useful. =) I've added this to the user contributed notes section of the openssh article on MandrakeSecure. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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