Re: exporting xauth

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

Oh ssh does more than this. It tunnels the X protocol through it's own
connection and creates a pseudo-Xserver on the remote machine. You could
use scp to copy the file over before hand. The best option is probably to
set up a script which you run from the menu.


Daniel Martin at cush wrote:

> "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> writes:
>
> > After the last round of questions & posts on the topic, I've found
> > that I can stably export xauthority by
> >
> > xauth list $DISPLAY
> >
> > and pasting from MIT on to
> >
> > xauth add $DISPLAY <pastehere>
> >
> > is there a way to pass this information automatically?
> > particularly, it doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like to pass it to
> > telnet when connecting to remote machines
>
> Dunno 'bout su, but if you use ssh to connect to remote machines this
> information is passed.

--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com



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