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It's not only ssh. I start GUI applications as a different user than the current desktop user constantly. It's a way for me to separate uses from each other. It
by AnonymousPlanet 7y ago
It's not only ssh. I start GUI applications as a different user than the current desktop user constantly. It's a way for me to separate uses from each other. It gives you a huge amount of flexibility.
I do a lot of these things with Linux, you cannot do in Windows:
- Log in, start an arbitrary program. Then log out, without the program stopping
- Start a GUI application as a different user than the one logged in graphically
- Start a GUI application that resides inside a container
- Start a GUI application in the local LAN over ssh
Take those away and you take away the biggest edge Linux has over Windows.
- therein 7y ago> Start a GUI application that resides inside a container I do this all the time to confine an application to a network namespace. It is great for forcing some GUI applications (for example a browser) through VPN while keeping everything else going over the default route. This way you can make sure the browser in your network namespace can only use the VPN.
- blibble 7y agoStart a GUI application as a different user than the one logged in graphically the xauth command will let you do this (which is what ssh X forwarding does)