Bug#229547: ssh: Some X programs executed in an ssh session appear to be executed on local not remote computer.
reassign 229547 mozilla-firebird
thanks
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 09:31:38PM -0800, Brandon Davis wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.6.1p2-11
> Severity: important
> I was setting up cups printing on my server to allow me to print from my
> laptop (debian unstable on both). On the laptop I had mozilla-firebird
> running to see the cups co\nfiguration on my laptop. The firewall on the
> server will not allow me to connect to port 631, so in order to see the
> cups configuration on the server I opened an ssh con\nection with X
> forwarding (ssh -X servername) from a gnome-terminal. I have ssh
> configured on the server for public-key authentication. In the
> gnome-terminal connected to\ the server I ran mozilla-firebird to modify
> the cups configuration on the server. When the firebird window opened it
> contained all of the bookmarks from my laptop, not t\he server, and
> localhost:631 connected me to cups on the laptop not the server.
This must be something to do with the way mozilla-firebird starts up:
all the mozilla derivatives attempt to find a running instance of
themselves and connect to it. Something like that, anyway.
> It appears that even though I opened firebird inside the ssh
> connection to the server it w\as executed on the laptop instead. It
> seems to me that firebird should have been executed on the server not
> the laptop and that localhost:631 should have connected me to \the
> server. Coincidentally, within the same ssh session I was able to
> connect to the servers cups configuration exactly as expected (at
> localhost:631) from w3m.
Yeah, indeed ssh isn't broken here. (This would be very complicated and
strange brokenness in ssh - very hard to achieve even deliberately, in
fact.)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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