[ale] launch programs over ssh into session?

[Geoffrey]

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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Until later, Geoffrey