Re: firefox over ssh

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:41:34 +0000, Mark Atherton wrote:

When I ssh into a remote system and run firefox I expect that with
"X11Forwarding yes" in my sshd_config on the remote system I should
execute firefox on the remote system but view it locally.

What seems to happen is that firefox runs on the local machine*. I'm
sure this happens by design, but I can't find out how it works, why it
might be desirable, or how to disable it.

I've looked at http://www.openssh.org/ but can't find the relevant docs.
Any pointers would be welcome.

Mark Atherton


* evidence: (1) when I ssh into a fresh linux installation and run
firefox it runs with the configuration setup as for my local system. (2)
ps -Al shows no firefox (or firefox-bin) running on the remote machine.

Put the following in your ~/.ssh/config file

Host *
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes
StrictHostKeyChecking no
ForwardAgent yes
BatchMode yes
.

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