ssh -Y -l user etc,etc

[Pat Kane]

What does the following command show?

        ssh -Y -l your_name your_host  /usr/bin/env

Pat
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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
<eirik at opera.com> wrote:
> gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 04:30:52 pm Adam Jackson did opine:
>>
>>> On 2/22/11 11:11 AM, gene heskett wrote:
>>> > Where can I find a good tutorial on making this Just Work(TM) when the
>>> > user numbers are disparate, as they will be between a debian based
>>> > system and the rest of the world.  I did have this working 6 months
>>> > ago, but every time *buntu updates the ssh stuff on the LTS releases,
>>> > it all goes away again.
>>>
>>> You're going to have to be a lot more precise than that about what kind
>>> of problems you're seeing.  I routinely ssh forward X connections
>>> between accounts with differing UIDs on different machines, nothing more
>>> complicated than ssh -Y needed.
>>>
>>> - ajax
>>
>>
>> In this case, emc is not running on the target, ubuntu machine.  I launch
>> it from this ssh -Y login, see the initial splash image, which goes away
>> after its initial timeout, and the cli then reports it couldn't get a
>> screen, so the whole thing exits.
>
> But other X applications (e.g. xterm) works?
>
>> The failure messages are somewhat less than worthless (to me at any rate)
>> but it does write a pair of files:
>
> You could include the error message anyway.  Maybe they mean something
> to someone.
>
> [...]
>> =================
>> RUN_IN_PLACE=no
>> EMC2_DIR=
> [...]
>> DISPLAY=axis
>
> Hopefully this is not the X11 DISPLAY actually used by emc, but means
> something else...
>
> [...]
>> Now, the fix that did make it work before is still there:
>>
>> gene at shop:~/emc2/configs/genes-mill$ echo $DISPLAY
>> localhost:10.0
>
> I assume you haven't set that yourself, but that it gets automatically
> set by ssh?
>
>> So, do I need to add something to this machine?  Its running pclos-32 bit,
>> 2010, uptodate except for tar as 1.24 and 1.25 are broken and will not work
>> with amanda.
>>
>> What happens if I change $DISPLAY to = coyote.coyote.den:10.0
>> That is this machine, or I could use this machines IP too, but then either
>> marries it to this machine only, not a real fix IMO.
>
> I assume coyote.coyote.den is the machine running the X server, rather
> than the machine running emc?  Then you probably want
> coyote.coyote.den:0.0, but you would need to set up proper access
> controls (etc.)
>
> eirik
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