IBM AIX: How do I set up SSH X forwarding on an unprivileged user with no home?

Question

Long story short: I have an AIX server where my user is unprivileged and has no home directory, and it is not easy to fix this because OS-level management of this server is outside of my jurisdiction.

I need to be able to do X over SSH on that server in order to run IBM Cognos Configuration, which is graphical only. I can't set my XAUTHORITY variable on my login profile because I don't have a profile, and since OS configuration is outside of my jurisdiction I don't think I'm allowed to globally set XAUTHORITY for all users, and doing so would require sorting through red tape and taking at least an hour working with the people in charge of the OS configuration. What can I do?

Answer 1

You may be able to change environment variables from the CLI:

 (Xauthority=.... ssh -Y me@myserver )

This spawns a shell in which the environment variable has a special value, but just for this subshell.