On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:37:06PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: | Hi, all. | | I often have to debug X-based apps for my users. In order to be able to | run the app as the user, I need to be able to accept X connections on my | desktop from their account on some other machine. On non-Debian systems, | I've always been able to do the old quick and dirty "xset +<hostname>" | to allow clients run by other users to connect to my server; but on any | Debian system I've used, this doesn't work.
Use ssh. With x-over-ssh enabled (/etc/ssh/sshd_config ,
~/.ssh/config) you can ssh to their box and 'su' (NOT 'su -') to them
and run the X app. It's sweet.
HTH,
-D
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