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Kudos, Geoffrey.

Matthew Brown, CorData
Linux Solutions for Small Business
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Geoffrey wrote:

> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 21:26, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>> Christopher Bergeron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Geoffrey, I was under the impression that he wanted to ssh into
>>>> her box and run an application onto her local X session. In that
>>>> case, it would be necessary to run "xhost +" to allow a remote
>>>> host to run an X app. on the local display.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not when using ssh. xhost is related to rsh, rlogin and such. The
>>> x app will be running over the ssh tunnel.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nope. Not in the scenario described. He log's on to mom's box via
>> ssh, then runs "abiword -display :0.0". Abiword is now displaying to
>> localhost, not through the ssh tunnel. Depending on the setup, his
>> mom may have to run "xhost + localhost" or "xhost +" before it will
>> let abiword through. The authentication part of the X protocol
>> always confuses me. It may be that if he can log in as his mother,
>> he will end up sharing her xauth certs, and this will let abiword
>> display without needing the xhost command, but it definitely is not
>> because of ssh.
>
>
> Correct, my bad, didn't think it through. My apologies to Chris B. :(
>
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