aha...
ok.. think i've got a partial solution.
as root xhost + --not exactly sure what this does -- need to reseach, but it appears to allow other users/processes access to the x env.. (this explanation is prob waaaaay wrong!!)
login as user foo su - foo
do a 'firefox -p -no-remote" -create a "new" profile to use as user foo, check the box to use this when firing up firefox -save
from the cmdline do "export DISPLAY=:0"
you can now from a term for user foo... simply do firefox & and it should display
Need to check the bashrc (or whatever gets used at startup) to have this done each time ssh is used/foo is logged in..
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk wrote:
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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