There are many pages on SSH X forwarding. I'd suggest a quick Google to find them.
However, very quickly, you need to ensure that you have
X11Forwarding yes
in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the remote box
Be aware though that Firefox seems to try to be clever. I use this technique from home to access intranet web sites by first making an inbound SSH connection. However, if I already have Firefox running locally, then try to start a remote Firefox via the SSH connection, it seems to want to action it via the local Firefox instance
On Wednesday 19 October 2016 11:23:32 bruce wrote:
Hi.
This is a "continuation" of the issue of starting firefox for a diff user on a box.
If one logs into (SSH) into a remote box, and wants to start firefox on the remote machine, such that all firefox operations occur on the remote machine..
Different sites suggest setting the DISPLAY var, as well as xauth, etc.. none of which seem to work.
The local/remote are both centos/fed.
The goal: To be able to SSH into a remote box, and run a py script that initiates a py/selenium binding/process to use firefox. -This requires that the remote box be able to start/run firefox for the user that the SSH session was started as/under.
The SSH/Firefox issue: -How to SSH into the box, and start firefox?
(Already set up the keys, to allow ssh into the box vai ssh 192.168.1.4)
Tried: ssh 192.168.1.4 foo@box1# DISPLAY=0: firefox ---ERROR: cannot open display: 0:
foo@box1# export DISPLAY=0: foo@box1# firefox ---No protocol specified ---ERROR: cannot open display: 0:
This has to be simple!
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