--- Benjamin Riefenstahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi Stefan, > > > Stefan Heinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I see more chance for success when analyzing the > SSH_CLIENT variable > > that is left behind by ssh. It contains the client's IP > address, > > which could be grafted into the DISPLAY variable. I'm > not a shell > > script guru, but I could try to put something together. > > No. Ssh uses port forwarding. That works by accepting X > connections > locally at the client machine and than forwarding the data > packets > that arrive on that "display" to your actual server through > an > internal SSH tunnel. Your DISPLAY variable on the client > should be > something like localhost:10.0.
Ah, that means that xhost + should not be needed because neither the X server nor the client notices that the connection isn't local. Well, I need xhost +, so the tunneling is most probably not working. But why does ssh not complain? I do provide the -X option! Cheers Stefan __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Logos und Klingelt�ne f�rs Handy bei http://sms.yahoo.de
