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Using XWindows

Recommendation: Use kerberized ssh v1_2_27g or later on your desktop machine.

For other programs, typically, a process on a remote Kerberized host isn't automatically given access to your local X display (as it is when you use ssh ).

If you insist on using a different transport, give access with xauth, e.g.,: 

% rsh -n -f -x <remote_host>.fnal.gov -l <username> \ 
xauth add `xauth list $DISPLAY`

Make sure $DISPLAY includes your local host name.

You can run a script or set up an alias for a command like the following, and run it each time you restart Xwindows, before connecting to the remote host: 

% xauth nlist <localhostname>:0 | ssh <remotehost> xauth nmerge -

or 

% xauth nlist <localhostname>:0 | rsh -f -x <remotehost> \ 
xauth nmerge -

Run this manually rather than with startx so that you can still get into Xwindows if for some reason this fails.

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