This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: DAVID SPEAR <dspear99ca at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:24:55 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh
- References: <loom.20040122T184529-729@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Start here:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=interact+with+desktop+sshd+site%3Acygwin.com&btnG=Google+Search
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, DAVID SPEAR wrote:
> I have been searching for a way to use "su" on my Win2K machine... from the
> reading I've done in this group the easiest way is to run ssh and log in as
> Administrator. An excellent solution, and one that works for me. I am curious
> as to how I might launch a Windows application from my root ssh command line to
> display within my non-priveleged-user Win2K login session.
>
> I guess I'm looking for the Windows equivilant of the X environment commands:
>
> unixhost% xhost +Administrator
> unixhost% setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
>
> so that if I wanted to run, say, the Event Viewer as root it would display it
> within my current logon session.
>
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax: 314-551-8444
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/