how can I set $REMOTEHOST ( so I can set $DISPLAY with sshd w\X11 forwarding)

[Ken Dibble]

peter waltman wrote:

>Ken Dibble <kdibbleNOSPAM <at> alltel.net> writes:
>
>  
>
>>I'm not 100 % sure what you are saying.
>>Are you trying to say that the cygwin sshd does not respect the -X and 
>>-Y flags
>>passed to the local ssh process?
>>And that for the above named reason you are forced to manually set the 
>>DISPLAY variable?
>>
>>regards,
>>ken
>>
>>
>>peter waltman wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>hi -
>>>
>>>trying to figure out how to set $REMOTEHOST when I ssh into a machine running
>>>cygwin's imp. of sshd.  X11 forwarding works great when I set the $DISPLAY
>>>properly, but I'd like to have it done in the .bashrc file (by checking if the
>>>$REMOTEHOST var is set).
>>>
>>>I've tried looking through the startup scripts on both my cygwin install and a
>>>rh9 box, but can't find where it gets set.  can anyone point me in the right
>>>direction?
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>yeah.  pretty much.  I've set the "ForwardX11 yes" in the sshd_config file on
>the server I log into and I've also set it in the ssh_config with the client I'm
>using to log into it.
>

and you sent the sshd a SIGHUP to re-read the config file after making 
the changes, right?

>
>   piano{pwaltman}51: ssh -X grad107m
>   pwaltman@grad107m's password:
>   Last login: Fri Aug  6 19:16:42 2004 from lin04.eecs.tufts.edu
>
>   pwaltman@GRAD107M ~
>   $ echo $DISPLAY
>   127.0.0.1:0
>
>even when I use the -X flag, it still set's my $DISPLAY to the above value and
>when I start an X11 app, like xterm, it ends up getting launched in the server's
>x-server and appears on the desktop of the server (grad107m).  If I set the
>$DISPLAY to localhost:10.0, everything works fine and it appears on the client.
>
>not sure why, ergo the reason I want to use the $REMOTEHOST var as a means to
>check if I've ssh'd in remotely and then use something like
>
>if $?REMOTEHOST
>   export DISPLAY=$REMOTEHOST:0.0
>
>thanks for any ideas,
>
>Peter
>
>p.s. forgive the shell script syntax errors.  I don't remember the exact script,
>but I've seen folks who've done it this way.  
>
>
>  
>


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