On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: >> Simply connect to your server with display forwarding: >> >> ssh -Y yourserver > > Isn't ssh -X more secure? I think -Y might be needed on Mac OS X but -X is > working fine (fine, not super fast) with GRASS GIS for me on Linux (Ubuntu).
My knowledge is based on this email: [GRASS-user] Running Grass Remotely On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Glynn Clements wrote: > stephen sefick wrote: > >> I would like to run grass remotely on a server running ubuntu. I >> would like to be able to forward the X11 to my desktop running ubuntu >> 9.10 over the network. Any help or pointers to reading material would >> be greatly appreciated. > > Connecting to the server with "ssh -Y ..." should forward X11 > connections back to the desktop system automatically (so long as this > hasn't been disabled in the server's sshd configuration). This is > generally simpler than configuring the desktop system to allow remote > X clients to connect directly. > > The server still needs all of the libraries which would be required to > run GRASS on a desktop system, e.g. X libraries, Tcl/Tk or wxPython > for the GUI, GDAL and PROJ for GRASS itself, etc. I found also these notes/discussions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Secure_Shell#X11_forwarding https://askubuntu.com/questions/35512/what-is-the-difference-between-ssh-y-trusted-x11-forwarding-and-ssh-x-u Probably it depends on the security status of the remote server (shared/not shared, internet/intranet etc). Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
