Initiating a remote X session

[Steve Howie]

Alexander Gottwald wrote:

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>First try:
>MYIP=`hostname -i`  rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"
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>but hostname -i does not work on cygwin. But maybe the name of the host is 
>sufficient
>MYIP=`hostname`  rexec <host> -l <username> "setenv DISPLAY $MYIP:0; /opt/SAS82/sas"
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But ipconfig does ...

    $  ipconfig | grep "IP Address" | awk '{print $15}'

will get the IP address, but no idea if this would work for older 
Windoze such as W95 (yes some people still use it :))


>Or even better, Use ssh:
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>DISPLAY=localhost:0 ssh -X <host> -l <username> "/opt/SAS82/sas"
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>ssh will take care of setting the remote DISPLAY and all transferred 
>data is sent via the ssh tunnel.
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Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password 
prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under cygwin to 
front end this with a username/password pop-up window? That'd be ideal :)

Thanks again for your help, Alexander

Scotty