Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 01:24:04 -0700 (PDT) From: larson@pa.dec.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/18934: X11 forwarding not requested with DISPLAY defined Message-ID: <20000601082404.26E1837BE9F@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 18934 >Category: misc >Synopsis: X11 forwarding not requested with DISPLAY defined >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 01 01:30:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Alan Larson >Release: 4.0 release >Organization: Compaq Computer Corp. >Environment: FreeBSD alan.pa.dec.com 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 20 22:50:22 GMT 2000 root@monster.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 >Description: The man page says X11 forwarding is requested when DISPLAY is set on the originating system. It is apparently not so, as -X needs to be set as well in the originating command. This might be related to the defaulting of X11 to disabled in sshd referred to in a previous bug report, in that someone turned them both off, but why? >How-To-Repeat: verify DISPLAY set to your display ssh remote-host-that-allows-xforwards >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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