Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530
> Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote 
> > host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using 
> > "ssh -Y <remote>" and at the prompt of the remote host, I ran
> > iceweasel. However it appears that a local instance of iceweasel is
> > started. There is no iceweasel/firefox process at all on the remote
> > host. The only way I could get iceweasel to run on the remote host is
> > by closing all instances of iceweasel already running on the
> > localhost.
> >
> > Is something wrong? 
>
> No, it's a feature :-)
>
> > If not, how do I run separate instances of
> > iceweasel concurrently?
>
> Invoke iceweasel on the remote host by issuing the command 'iceweasel
> -no-remote'.
That's it! Thank you. But I am curious as to how the iceweasel script 
running on the remote host is able to spawn/control the local process 
without authentication. I have not added the remote hosts key in my 
authorised_hosts file.

Regards,
Raj Kiran