[Cialug] SSH annoyance

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
>
> That could be. I've never really paid attention to the DISPLAY variable
> since X11 forwarding always just worked before. I'm just trying to
> narrow down where the problem is.

I'm not sure if this is distro-specific or something from upstream,
but newer versions of SSH turn off X11 forwarding in the config files.
 Check your config files for something like this:

ForwardAgent no
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes

-- 
Jeff Ollie