hanging on logout, can't background client

[Phil Edwards]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:59:29PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> why don't you start the xterm with
> 	$ ssh -f host xterm

Because I'm not simply getting an xterm.

    linuxclient%  ssh solarisserver
    solarisserver%  xauth nextract .....
    solarisserver%  /bin/su -
    solarisserver#  xauth nmerge ....
    solarisserver#  DISPLAY=solarisserver:N xterm ....... &
[root's xterm appears]
    solarisserver#  exit
    solarisserver%  [maybe do some more work as me]
    solarisserver%  exit
[linuxclient hangs, I hit ~&, root's xterm continues to run]
    linuxclient%

This way, I have a root shell on the server I'm sysadmining, it's running in
a terminal emulator that I know and trust (xterm), it's securely tunnelled,
and I still have the use of the local (linuxclient) terminal I used to
start the whole thing.

-f won't do that for me.  I didn't mention all this in my original message
because I didn't want to arbitrarily complicate things.

Unfortunately, OpenSSH denies me the use of ~&, which I consider a bug.
It also denies me the use of /any other escape sequence/, which I consider
a serious bug.


Phil

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