[Telepathy] [ssh-contact] Why do I need X11 running and is there a workaround for avoiding it?

[Xavier Claessens]

On mar, 2011-08-23 at 17:23 +0200, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
> Do you know netcat?
> When you use 'netcat <host> <port>', it connects stdin and stdout to
> the port of the given host. Well without getting into details ssh, can
> connect to the io of another process like netcat. For example if you
> add this in your .ssh/config:
> Host localhost
>     ProxyCommand netcat anotherhost %p
> 
> Then when you'll try ssh-ing localhost, you'll actually be redirected
> on 'anotherhost'.
> 
> So being able to use ssh-contact as a proxycommand would thus require
> being able to use ssh-contact as netcat:
> 'ssh-contact --netcat <contact> <port>' which would connect stdin and
> stdout to the port of the given contact.
> 
> And you'd just need to put this in your .ssh/config:
> Host mycontact
>     ProxyCommand ssh-contact --netcat mycontact %p

you can do ssh-contact --account <account path> --contact <contact id>
and that will do just that afaik.