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Re: Initiating a remote X session
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote:
> >Or even better, Use ssh:
> >
> >DISPLAY=localhost:0 ssh -X <host> -l <username> "/opt/SAS82/sas"
> >
> >ssh will take care of setting the remote DISPLAY and all transferred
> >data is sent via the ssh tunnel.
> >
> >
>
> Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password
> prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under cygwin to
> front end this with a username/password pop-up window? That'd be ideal :)
Maybe x11-ssh-askpass may help here
http://www.jmknoble.net/software/x11-ssh-askpass/
The same for windows
http://www.ganaware.jp/S/win-ssh-askpass/
So the statup script is
#!/bin/bash
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
export SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/win-ssh-askpass.exe"
ssh -f -X <host> -l username "/opt/SAS82/sas"
This should bring up a window for the password.
Unfortunatly the testing with cygwin openssh did not work properly.
I'll take a look if this is disabled with the cygwin build-
bye
ago
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