On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Jason Corcoran wrote:
> It should be a case of (from you client machine) ensuring that the
> server machine has the right to start X apps so run xhost + <ip>
> Next ssh into the server, export DISPLAY=<clientIp>:0.0 and then
> start up your app that you are interested in.
This should never be needed with SSH forwarding of X. Indeed, your
instructions have no need of SSH - you would have been better
suggesting the reader use 'rlogin' as it would at least be clear just
how insecure this is.
> As mentioned you could also use ssh +x
Change "could" to "should".
regards,
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