Allegedly, on or about 19 October 2016, Rick Stevens sent: > I've done this before. Essentially: > > 1. Ensure "X11Forwarding yes" is set in the REMOTE system's > /etc/ssh/sshd_config file and make sure sshd has been restarted > to read it. > > 2. Run "xhost +" as root on the LOCAL system to permit everyone > to make connections to the LOCAL system's X server. > > 2. "su - unprivileged-user-name" on the LOCAL machine. > > 3. "ssh -X user@REMOTEHOST" to log into the REMOTE machine. > > 4. Verify you have a DISPLAY variable set by doing > "echo $DISPLAY" on the REMOTE machine. You should get a value > like "localhost:10.0", indicating you have X forwarded. > > 5. Run "firefox" on the REMOTE machine. The display should pop > up on your local machine. > > This has worked for me for a long time. It's an issue with Firefox, chiefly. It tries to be clever, and use an already (locally) running Firefox instance if there is one. Sure, if there isn't any Firefox running at the time, then issuing the command will run Firefox on the remote computer displaying on the local machine. But, if if Firefox was already running locally, then any attempt to run Firefox, will (usually) re-use the local one. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Lucky for you I typed this, you'd never be able to read my handwriting. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
