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." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .