Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> ssh should assume ``DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0'' when the DISPLAY variable is
> not set on the Cygwin host. I am not sure why this is not currently the
> case. I can only guess that the lack of this assumption is either do to
> 1) a whiny security geek on the openssh pro
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:57 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SSH Notes
>
>
> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > ssh should assum
>From: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: SSH Notes
>Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:16:42 -0400
>
>X11 tunnelling via SSH has always been somewhat of a mystery to me and to
>most other Cygwin/XFree86 users. I knew that the instructions t
Harold Hunt wrote:
> That doesn't make any sense. ssh picks up the DISPLAY value on your Cygwin
> host because it needs to know where to direct the data that comes in over
> the X11 tunnel. So, a DISPLAY of 127.0.0.1 on your Cygwin host can only
> cause ssh to try to connect to the X Server on y
>From: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: SSH Notes
>Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:16:42 -0400
[snip]
>At the very least, we should patch the Cygwin release of openssh to assume
>that DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 when DISPLAY is not defined i
Thomas Chadwick wrote:
>> What to Fix
>> ===
>>
>> ssh should assume ``DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0'' when the DISPLAY variable
>> is not set on the Cygwin host. I am not sure why this is not
>> currently the case. I can only guess that the lack of this
>> assumption is either do to 1) a wh
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> SuSE has a similar thing in their default .profile
Is that /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile?
> if test -z "$DISPLAY" -a "$TERM" = "xterm" -a -x /usr/bin/who ; then
> WHOAMI="`/usr/bin/who am i`"
> _DISPLAY="`expr "$WHOAMI" : '.*(\([^\.][^\.
