From 37c5b03dbe70f8f3fe24d15318645e1678841879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:17:54 -0400
Subject: added comments and changelog notes about why the test script sets
 $DISPLAY

---
 tests/basic | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tests/basic')

diff --git a/tests/basic b/tests/basic
index c85b449..d735578 100755
--- a/tests/basic
+++ b/tests/basic
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@ export SSHD_CONFIG="$TEMPDIR"/sshd_config
 export SOCKET="$TEMPDIR"/ssh-socket
 export SSHD_PID=
 
+# Make sure $DISPLAY is set to convince ssh and monkeysphere to fall
+# back on $SSH_ASKPASS.  Make sure it's not set to the current actual
+# $DISPLAY (if one exists) because this test suite should not be doing
+# *anything* with any running X11 session.
 export DISPLAY=monkeys
 
 ### CONFIGURE ENVIRONMENTS
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