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From: "David McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "s ys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: about GUI
With a app called SecureSSH, it comes with Forword X11 Packets. So, in
short, you do not need to specify the DISPLAY property. All you have to do
is just load up the X App : )
>
> That is the main reason I use ssh, to secure X connections to servers I
need to
> access with X. (It also gives us a valid reason to refuse telnet
access!:):) By
> default, ssh forwards X connections over it's connection. So all you
should have to
> do is run an X server on the machine you are connecting from, and set your
DISPLAY
> properly on the server after you ssh in.
>
> BTW, for those of you that use tcsh as your shell, there is an env var set
by tcsh
> called REMOTEHOST, and it is set to the host you cannected from. I have
this in my
> .cshrc:
>
> setenv DISPLAY $REMOTEHOST:0.0
>
> so my DISPLAY is set for me when I log in. Of course, with this, if you
ssh to one
> machine, and then ssh to another from there, your DISPLAY will not be set
right. :):)
> But then, you set it by hand. No big deal. :)
>
>
>
Sky S.
Voltage Communications
