Strange when running ssh -X

John · External Since: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 4

I log in to another computer with ssh -X. Then I run Firefox. Then I
type localhost in location field in the Firefox window that just
showed up. I get the default web page on the web server running on the
computer from which I started the ssh session.

I though logging in with ssh -X only forwarded the X graphics so to
speak. It's like I simultaneously was running ssh -L 80:localhost:
80 ...

What happening here?

Darren Salt · External Since: Oct 15, 2004 Posts: 359

I demand that John may or may not have written...

> I log in to another computer with ssh -X. Then I run Firefox. Then I type
> localhost in location field in the Firefox window that just showed up. I
> get the default web page on the web server running on the computer from
> which I started the ssh session.

> I though logging in with ssh -X only forwarded the X graphics so to speak.
> It's like I simultaneously was running ssh -L 80:localhost: 80 ...

> What happening here?

You already had Firefox running on the local machine, the remote Firefox
launcher script noticed that it could contact an already-running instance
(using X to do so, so it ended up communicating over the ssh tunnel) and told
that to open a new window.

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You still need the last file you removed.