[Gllug] export DISPLAY in .bashrc

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:56:22PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> I've been googling around for how to set the display upon login.
> 
> Basically I have someone who uses $BIZARRE_X_SERVER_FOR_WINDOWS and
> ssh's to a box with putty. I'd like bashrc to set the display to the ip
> address they log in from if they do so remotely and otherwise leave it
> alone.

On my machine at home, ssh sets various SSH_* variables which appear
to contain the client IP address:

$ printenv | grep SSH
SSH_CLIENT=10.0.0.249 58543 22
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1
SSH_CONNECTION=10.0.0.249 58543 10.0.0.252 22

In particular, SSH_CONNECTION looks useful.

Rich.

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