There are many pages on SSH X forwarding. I'd suggest a quick Google to find them. However, very quickly, you need to ensure that you have X11Forwarding yes in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the remote box Be aware though that Firefox seems to try to be clever. I use this technique from home to access intranet web sites by first making an inbound SSH connection. However, if I already have Firefox running locally, then try to start a remote Firefox via the SSH connection, it seems to want to action it via the local Firefox instance On Wednesday 19 October 2016 11:23:32 bruce wrote: > Hi. > > This is a "continuation" of the issue of starting firefox for a diff > user on a box. > > If one logs into (SSH) into a remote box, and wants to start firefox > on the remote machine, such that all firefox operations occur on the > remote machine.. > > Different sites suggest setting the DISPLAY var, as well as xauth, > etc.. none of which seem to work. > > The local/remote are both centos/fed. > > The goal: > To be able to SSH into a remote box, and run a py script that > initiates a py/selenium binding/process to use firefox. > -This requires that the remote box be able to start/run firefox > for the user that the SSH session was started as/under. > > The SSH/Firefox issue: > -How to SSH into the box, and start firefox? > > (Already set up the keys, to allow ssh into the box vai ssh 192.168.1.4) > > Tried: > ssh 192.168.1.4 > foo@box1# DISPLAY=0: firefox > ---ERROR: cannot open display: 0: > > > foo@box1# export DISPLAY=0: > foo@box1# firefox > ---No protocol specified > ---ERROR: cannot open display: 0: > > This has to be simple! > > Any thoughts?? > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Gary Stainburn Group I.T. Manager Ringways Garages http://www.ringways.co.uk _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
