Re: X forwarding with openssh-2.1.1p1-1

[Markus Friedl]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:21:39AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> I see to have hit an interesting problem with openssh-2.1.1p1-1 and X
> forwarding. When I use the directions in the file
> /usr/doc/openssh-2.1.1p1/README.Ylonen, I get different results:
> 
> root@charlesc # ssh server echo $DISPLAY
> root@server's password:
> charlesc:0.0

this is wrong. it echos the local DISPLAY variable.
use
                $ ssh -X server 'echo $DISPLAY'