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10.5: Re-enable remote X viewing in 10.5.5
Authored by: Raaveni on Oct 02, '08 11:53:08PM

Well all very nice, but 10.5.5 X11-forwarding doesn't work for me... or well it works and doesn't. Taking an ssh -Y or ssh -X command works fine to a Linux box in case I'm using my own account. But since I'm a unix admin, I more of then than not need to use an application remotely with another account.

Why not use ssh -X <user>@host? Well I don't know the user's password and have no wish to change it for the testing purposes either. Could be done ofc, but not a good solution.

So I need to take a remote root connection and su to a user's account. Ofc the x-forwarding doesn't work then. Here's the big problem: in 10.5.5, "setenv DISPLAY host:0.0" no longer works. It doesn't transfer the display to my local machine.

Also the ssh -X/-Y option doesn't work on Solaris boxes with SunSSH either.

Any ideas would be welcome...

PS. I tried downloading MacPorts in order to replace the OpenSSH of 10.5.5 with a previous version. But the installation of MacPorts fails on some post installation script.



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