Sunday
Jan252009
Mac/Linux X11 forwarding
Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 3:08PM This tip is for power users. It requires a few things to work:
- A Linux/BSD/Whatever runs X11.
- A Mac for the Clients.
- A install of OpenSSH server on the Linux box (with ForwardX11 enabled)
First we open the Terminal application from the Utilities folder on the Mac. Then we login to the ssh server with the following command.
ssh -X -l <USERNAME> <IPADDRESS>
Once we have logged in we can run any commands that are available on the server system. In this example I used the system-config-services command that is part of the Fedora 10 Linux system that is used to configure services.
This method of running applications remotely enables the network traffic to be encrypted and doesn't require a VNC server to be running.
;)
