Re: howto make root emacs open in X
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:50:00PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:38:30PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:48:48PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:04:03PM -0600, Harry P wrote:
> > > > Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> writes:
> > > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:26:07AM -0600, Harry P wrote:
> > > > >> Axel Freyn <axel-freyn@gmx.de> writes:
> > > > >> > Why do you use ssh to connect to the local machine? I would propose to
> > > > > Point of Axel is use of SSH wastes CPU resource while gaining nothing.
> > > > > His suggestion is more efficient. .. I think.
> > > > Setting the issue of whether you have to type out a passwd aside:
> > >
> > > Hmmm... you must have set up passwordless SSH to root. I hope this sshd
> > > is not accessible from Internet. You may be attacked easily.
> > >
> >
> > I did it with localhost public key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts and my
> > user pub key in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys .
>
> Sorry I have come in a bit late and the answer might have been given
> previously.
>
I gain freedom from continual typing of passwords.
I have three debian computers on a small LAN. I have deposited
authorized_keys and known_hosts files on all of them so that I can
work on files on any of them using the CPU of any of them, all from my
single desktop computer. Each time I log into my desktop I must give
my password once and run ssh-add and give my ssh key password
(once). After that I can move about the system without ever typing a
password again until I quit and have to log in again. I can abandon a
shell on a romote machine and them immediately reenter it by scrolling
back and reexecuting a previously typed in ssh command.
To do this, I use ssh and sshfs. No private keys that lack passwords
are need, just some ingenuity. This is all being done on a small LAN
protected from the internet wilderness by NAT. It's OK for me, IMHO.
YMMV
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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