On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:13:58 +0530, G Karunakar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[This is not a response to OP; I am just responding to solutions that
open up the X display; there are alternatives to doing this]
> typically you can do this..
> 1) open a terminal $ xhost +
This essentially defeats all the security you had in place. I
would not recommend this.
> 2)
> $ su - otheruser $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 (or DISPLAY=urip:0.0 )
xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/X11/xauth merge -
Here is how to allow oneself on another machine to run X
clients on host tiamat from host glaurung.
#!/bin/sh
if [ `hostname` == "glaurung" ]; then
xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh tiamat /usr/bin/xauth merge -
ssh tiamat "DISPLAY=glaurung:0 ${1+"$@"} & "
fi
manoj
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