Thanks for the information. At my institution, we were told by the
university network security group that after ssh -X, one still needed to
"activate" X for the session by xinit or the like for security reasons.
Evidently, the persons were thinking of some other environment (MS
Windows perhaps?). Indeed, xeyes and firefox both work fine from the
remote host to the local client workstation.
A question: as a regular X window manager desktop from the remote
machine is not displayed (that is, the pull down menu "Applications"
under Gnome or the equivalent from KDE), is there any mechanism to get
such a menu, etc., displayed? What is the default GUI file manager
(that allows an end user to "point and click" on an executable file to
execute the application) that can be invoked from a remote terminal?
Yasha Karant
On 05/06/2014 02:09 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 05/06/2014 01:38 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I am attempting to get ssh -X working to a remote machine for which I am
root.
Hi Yasha,
I can not make heads or tails aver what you wrote: probably
not smart enough.
Are you able to create a simple terminal?
ssh -l yasha -t -X -p port IP_address
If it helps, here are my notes on "ssh -X";
syntax:
ssh -l <username> -t -X <ip.of.your.guest> <command>
For Example:
ssh -l todd -t -X 192.168.255.185 /usr/bin/gedit
HTH,
-T
