[PLUG] ssh / window manager interaction land mine.

[Russell Evans]

On 07 Jan 2004 20:10:26 -0800
"Russell Senior" <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:


> RE> "remote-host1" (system "/usr/bin/ssh -fX remote-host1
> RE> bin/remote/run_xterm")
> 
> RE> This should prompt for the password if needed
> 
> The -f doesn't seem to help.  And it does prompt, but not anywhere I
> can talk to it.  The prompts show up on the virtual tty, but my
> keystrokes somehow never make it to ssh.

force a tty? ssh -tfX


Thank you
Ruseel