I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine.Miark,
Odd! How do I prevent that?
Miark
How did you determin that it ran from the local machine? One thing to keep in mind about X programs is that the machine they run on, and the machine they are controlled from, do not have to be the same. The X server a program connect to for control and display is controlled by the --display option on the command line, or the DISPLAY shell varable. With ssh, if X forwarding is enabled, then when you ssh to another box it set things up so X programs will connect to X on your local machine.
If you want to start a program on a remote machine, and have it displayed on the remote machine, you have a much harder time. The default security settings are designed to prevent this. If they didn't, then anyone that could log into the remote box could, by starting the right software, monitor what the user at the console of that box is doing. Or have windows popping up all over the place on the screen, or other nasty stuff. Definity not something you want appening when you are trying to get some work done on the box.
Mikkel --
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