[ale] X application as root

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 07:54 am, David Corbin wrote:

> 2) When I'm not at home, I can get to my home systems by using ssh to
> the firewall, and then ssh from their to a behind the firewall system.
> I don't suppose there's any good way (as in, without opening a complete
> hole in the firewall) to be able to run X apps on a system behind the
> firewall, with an X display that's "out in the public world (but may
> itself, be behind a firewall).

This is exactly what X forwarding is for.  Assuming it is allowed in the 
global config file, "ssh -X <hostname>" should let you start up an X 
client on the remote box.  You can chain these together by loggin in from 
the remote system to a remoter system.  I do this all the time.

Michael
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