Re: X-11 forwarding, ssh, multiple hosts

["William Underwood" <wllmundrwd@charter.net>]

On Tue, 6 May 2003 11:12:01 -0500
 Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
>So after reading all that...  Why can't you just ssh to each box in
>turn and let ssh tunnel the X connections for you?

Perhaps it is our configuration, perhaps it is the vendor, I don't know, but
the X forward only goes back to the last source...

>    client:~$ ssh -X hostA
>    hostA:~$ echo $DISPLAY
>    localhost:11.0
>    hostA:~$ ssh -X hostB
>    hostB:~$ echo $DISPLAY
>    localhost:10.0
>    hostB:~$ xlogo
>
>    [xlogo pops up on client]

Nope, it just gives an error and dies...

>Maybe I'm just missing something here...

Nope, that is where we came from too..

>Steve

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William Underwood
wllmundrwd@charter.net

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