Re: ssh with X window

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 05:17:31PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Mauricio Lin (<mauriciolin@gmail.com>) wrote:
> 
> > I have tried to make the ssh works with X on my debian system and no
> > successful results.
> > 
> > On local mahine I have put:
> > 
> > $ xhost ip_remote_host
> 
> Don't use xhost unless you know exactly what you do. Using
> 
> xhost +ip_remote_host
> 
> will allow that machine to connect to your X server on your machine. If
> you use X over ssh, that is not necessary. 
> 
> > After that I type:
> > 
> > $ ssh -X user@ip_remote_host
> > 
> > After I logged I type
> > 
> > export DISPLAY=ip_local_host:0.0
> 
> ssh should set the DISPLAY itself. Don't set the DISPLAY manually to
> your host. This could result in the application trying to connect to
> your local_host outside of the ssh connection, which is not what you
> want, because that would be unencrypted, and your X server probably
> doesn't even listen on the network. Let ssh set the DISPLAY.

It actually sets it to localhost:10.0 if I remember correctly.  Then
10.0 is shipped back across the ssh connection to your local machine.

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>