xhost question

[Anthony Hologounis]

I saw der hans post about using ssh with the -X flag. I read the man page on 
ssh too. I cant seem to get that feature to work, either that or I am not 
doing it right..hmm, lets take a guess..

Here is what I am doing:

xhost +bob #lets allow the machine bob

ssh -X bob #lets get over to bob

Whilst on bob

export DISPLAY=jim:0.0

$xosview &


Ok that works fine.

After reading the threads concerning xhost I got the impression that I dont 
need to do

xhost +bob

that ssh with the -X flag will work in its place...

I tried it of course but it doesnt.

So can someone give me the exact syntax of using ssh with the -X option to 
export displays from one machine to another?
Thanks

Anthony

On Tuesday 05 February 2002 08:30 am, you wrote:
> The best reason I can think of to use ssh internally is for compression
> - X11 is a major bandwidth piggie.
>
> "der.hans" wrote:
> > Am 03. Feb, 2002 schwätzte Kevin Brown so:
> > > If this is on an internal LAN at home then I would think that you
> > > could connect without having to use ssh.  My systems here all accept
> >
> > Sure, you can, but why? ssh does what you need with less effort and way
> > more security.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
>
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