Re: how to run X apps as root?
Thank you Françcois,
I was ignoring the -X option of slogin. It looks easy, secured.
That's why debian is so great, each day you learn something.
Christophe
Le mar, 03 jui 2001 17:33:22, Francois Gouget a écrit :
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, christophe barbé wrote:
>
> >
> > SUX seems pretty usefull. What about a debian package for it (or
> > integrating it in an another)?
>
> I was thinking about proposing to add it to xbase-clients but the
> response was not very enthusiastic. So yes, maybe I'll package it. Would
> you be interested about packaging it?
>
>
> > Is there something similar for remote X session ?
>
> for remote X sessions you should use ssh. For instance:
>
> $ slogin -X -l foo remote.dom
>
> The -X activates X forwarding if it is not the default (it's not on
> Debian). With -X the remote application will see a $DISPLAY value that
> looks like "remote.com:15". This is in fact handled byt the ssh server
> which will forward all such X requests to your local slogin process
> which will then send them to your X server. This means the remote
> application communicates with your X server via an encrypted
> communication channel, it's pretty sweet. Of course, on the remote end,
> access to this "remote.com:15" is subject to an xauth-style
> authentication mechanism. So here too sux can come in handy.
>
>
> --
> Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/
> The software said it requires Win95 or better, so I installed Linux.
>
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