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Originally posted by bjmorse
We are running RH Rel4 Enterprise. I just set up a couple of new workstations. Running great ... with the exception of trying to display back to the console.
If the user logs in and does an xhost + ... then logs into another node at our site and trying to display back (an xterm, anything) to the console, we get a can't open display message.
Yes, we are setting setenv DISPLAY hostname:0.0 (tried all possible variations, the IP address etc.)
Possibly some default settings in /etc/pam.d or initd ???? Any suggestions?
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Are you using telnet to log in to these nodes?
If you use ssh, it has the ability to automatically forward X clients back to you. It is encrypted over the SSH tunnel and does not require the xhost stuff at all.
See man ssh if you are not familiar with this. You might have to use ssh -X hostname to enable, or set it in the config files.
If you already knew this but have a special need that ssh will not support, please excuse me.
Also, do you have a firewall (iptables) blocking the inbound X connection?