On Wednesday 28 January 2004 04:37 am, Leo wrote:
> I connected to another computer via ssh and ran redhat-config-services.
>
> The configurator then executed in the local machine.
>
> Is this normal?
Well, if that's not the case, what do you expect then, where the GUI should be
displayed ? :) :)
Seriously, yes, it is normal. It's called X forwarding. And I think it's one
of the greatest feature in linux / XFree86. When you SSH to the another
machine and run an X application, the application will try to connect to your
local machine thru the SSH tunnel (so it's secure). By default Redhat enables
X forwarding.
If you don't like it, you can disable X forwarding in /etc/sshd_config. But I
have to say I love X forwarding. It makes me able to do all kind of stuff
(admin things or work) from my workstation to all kind of other machines.
Hope that helps.
RDB
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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