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Auteur: Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] New behaviour under Devuan.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:51:53 -0500
Hector Gonzalez <cacho@???> wrote:

> You can also do this, assuming your original user is "user":
> XAUTHORITY=~user/.Xauthority
> export XAUTHORITY
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> export DISPLAY
> and use x with that. You don't add permissions, and there is no need to
> use ssh to forward localhost connections. If XAUTHORITY is missing, you
> need xauth installed, but that should already be there if you have ssh
> and X anyway. root should have permission to read ~user/.Xauthority
> unless you are using a non local home directory.


OTOH, having done nothing to configure ssh, I have ssh -X working perfectly, allowing me to run on my desktop a pcmanfm to manage files on the remote box.

Cheers,

Ron.
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