Hans,
your solution works fine, provided you use trusted hosts. on my
system it forces the users to enter the passphrase twice. it just might be
worth it though - i could explain that this is the price to pay for
actuqlly having a local printer. julius
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> The ~/.ssh/environment file is read from the TARGET. So, in order to use
> it, you must first copy it from the connection machine, in this case the
> ltsp-server.
>
> echo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY >.ssh/target_environment
> scp -q .ssh/environment target:.ssh/
> ssh target "echo $DISPLAY"
>
> Works for me.
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:12:59PM -0500, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> > Jim,
> > this is true on its face, but ... the DISPLAY variable is correct
> > on the lstp server named, say, "ltspl" and points to wsxxx. so far so
> > good. now on the workstation the user pops up the terminal window and
> > types "ssh -X myname@turtle". provided the keys and passphrases are
> > correct the user logs in on server "turtle". the DISPLAY variable on
> > turtle points to turtle:10.0, which is correct - the X forwarding is on.
> > what "turtle" doesn't know is which workstation is the X going to - this
> > is handled by 'ltspl' server. "turtle" needs the workstation name to
> > figure out the >printer< queues associated with this workstation. fun,
> > huh? my o'reilly book on ssh has nothing on how to pass an arbitrary value
> > to sshd server and have access to this value from the user environment.
> > the difficulty stems from the fact that i use ltsp server as a
> > stepping stone to the business system, not as an end point in itself.
> > thanks, julius
>
> The ~/.ssh/environment file is read from the TARGET. So, in order to use
> it, you must first copy it from the connection machine, in this case the
> ltsp-server.
>
> echo DISPLAY=$DISPLAY >.ssh/target_environment
> scp -q .ssh/environment target:.ssh/
> ssh target "echo $DISPLAY"
>
> Works for me.
>
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