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(a)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!
>>
>> Any thoughts??
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>
>
> --
> Gary Stainburn
> Group I.T. Manager
> Ringways Garages
>
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