Re: Detecting whether a session is locally or remotely log ged in

At 12:26 PM 8/26/2005, you wrote:

>In those cases, will the DISPLAY value help?  I'd have thought you would
>be able to tell the difference that way:
>         :0 = local
>localhost:0 = local
>foo.domain.com:N = local (regardless of 'N') if machine is really
>foo.domain.com
>
>anything.else.com:N = remote display

This may work as a second check after SSH checks are done...


>If you're doing X over ssh, then when forwarding X connections, I think
>sshd controls which offset to start display numbering, so maybe parse
>$DISPLAY & work from there.

I'll have to experiment there... :)