Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:24:55 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: DAVID SPEAR cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.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/