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Re: bash prop
- To: Ben-Nes Michael <miki(at-nospam)canaan.co.il>
- Subject: Re: bash prop
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:48:39 +0200 (IST)
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> At least with RH7 its not.
Where can I configure this?
>
> The DISPLAY was the reason for asking for the REMOTEHOST var as im using X
> emulator from winblow
>
> any way I used SSH var as people in the list told me
>
> # to get the client connectewd from ( get $1 as IP)
> set $SSH_CLIENT
>
> # to bind X DISPLAY to the remote host
> export DISPLAY=$1:0.0
If you connect with ssh you can enable X forwarding, and relieve yourself
of the need to explicitly set the IP.
This is a bit if a security breach for the client, but I believe that in
your case the windows box can trust the linux server.
In that case you need not touch the value of DISPLAY which is set by the
sshd.)
>
> Boaz Rymland wrote:
>
> > Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > I wonder if any one know what bash variable contain the host i got
> > > connected from.
> > >
> > > if ther5e is no such variable in bash, does other shell go it or system
> > > function ?
> > > --
> >
> > If he's aint using tcsh or ssh, a workaround (though not the most beautiful, I
> > admit) is checking $DISPLAY, which will be set to the remote client name (not
> > IP), with additional data. This is set up by telnet, if you use it.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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