On Mon, 2 May 2005, Henry Camacho wrote: > I've done the following using our Sun hosts with success... > > ssh -Y -l root <sunhost>
Right. But using root for doing non-administrative tasks is a high security risk. > > xterm -e ssh -Y userid@<sun-host> <sun-host> & What does this mean: - start xterm (in the background) - in xterm start ssh to host sun-host with user userid - on sunhost start command sunhost the last part is the problem $ xterm -e ssh -Y userid@<sun-host> & should work much better > > xterm -e ssh userid@<sun-host> -Y <sun-host> & replied to the password > > request, and the X window from the Sun server closed too. > > after ssh failed, the xterm is closed because it was not interactive. > > You should try starting ssh from the cygwin prompt first. This will keep > the error message. > > open cygwin prompt > > $ ssh userid@<sun-host> -Y <sun-host> & Oops this should be $ ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] or like mentioned above $ ssh -Y -l userid sun-host bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723