[ILUG] Re: X-windows client for NT + HOw

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:54:12 +0000 (GMT) Dave Airlie <david.airlie at drua.ie> wrote:

| other answer use ssh, with X forwarding... damn useful for xauth.. do
| someat like this.. I had one PC, with X server and 5-6 sparcs with shared
| home dirs, 

| doing something like 

| xauth extract - pcname:0.0 | rsh sparc xauth merge -

| this grabs the key from the pc screen throws it onto the sparc, then xon
| would work fine..
| I used to have four of five of these rsh's in my start up scripts...

<confusion> How does this use ssh?

I kind of cheated in that I just used Linux on my primary workstation and 
passed the xauth cookies via NFS and invoked via xrsh.

Then I discovered ssh and ssh-agent.

In .xsession:
---8<---------------
eval `/usr/local/bin/ssh-agent -s`
ssh-add /home/paul/.ssh2/my-key
exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm2
------------->8-----
Then in my .fvwm2rc:
----8<--------------
AddToFunc SshXHost "I" Exec ssh -f $0 'nxterm -title "$0 : ssh" -n "$0 : ssh"'

AddToMenu "Shells at desktop.xpm@" "Shells" Title
+ "Mint%mini-lock.xpm%" SshXHost mint
------------>8------
You can even load the likes of xload that way.
Since the output of ssh-agent is evaled, the magic variables are defined 
for every process you run under that X login. It doesn't even need NFS to 
work, although you'll probably want to get your keys straightened out first.
	Paul
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