"Michael A. Miller" wrote: > > I'm having trouble running a commercial application. When I ssh > to the redhat machine that the application is installed on and > try to run it, it crashes with display errors like "X Error of > failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource > denied)". The vendor tells me that "this is because ssh does not > permit the sharing of X resources which [their app] needs to > do." The solution that they suggest is to set my DISPLAY > variable and do authentication with xhost or xauth, just like the > good old days. That doesn't mesh with our local security policy, > so I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a way to get ssh to > "permit the sharing of X resources". Can anyone help me get > started on this?
As an alternative, would vnc do the job? The X server is then running on the same machine. Richard -- I'm currently looking for work; see my Curriculum Vitae here: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~rhector/cv.html
