On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote:
| Hi, all.
|
| I often have to debug X-based apps for my users. In order to be able to
| run the app as the user, I need to be able to accept X connections on my
| desktop from their account on some other machine. On non-Debian systems,
| I've always been able to do the old quick and dirty "xset +<hostname>"
| to allow clients run by other users to connect to my server; but on any
| Debian system I've used, this doesn't work.
Use ssh. With x-over-ssh enabled (/etc/ssh/sshd_config ,
~/.ssh/config) you can ssh to their box and 'su' (NOT 'su -') to them
and run the X app. It's sweet.
HTH,
-D
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