xpra attach ssh:hostname : What happens if two xpra instances are running on the server, but for different users?

[krlmlr]

The documentation reads:

Generally, if you have only one xpra server running on a machine, then you can omit the number entirely; xpra attach alone will attach to the lone xpra server on the current machine regardless of its number, xpra attach ssh:frodo will similarly attach to the lone xpra server on a remote machine.

What happens if several xpra instances are running, but the user has only access to one of them? I would expect "the right thing" to happen, but the documentation is not very clear about it.

[Antoine Martin]

What happens if several xpra instances are running, but the user has only access to one of them?

I don't understand what that means.

As long as "xpra list" only sees one session, attach via ssh should work as advertised. Is that not what you are seeing?

[krlmlr]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Replying to totaam:

As long as "xpra list" only sees one session, attach via ssh should work as advertised. Is that not what you are seeing?

I don't have a means to test that, but your explanation seems reasonable. However, then the documentation (man page) is imprecise -- "if you have only one xpra server running on a machine" could be replaced by the weaker "if xpra list returns only one session", which makes a huge difference in a multi-user scenario.

[Antoine Martin]

OK, is r4069 any better?

If so, please close this ticket.

[krlmlr]

This is much clearer now, thank you!

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this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/402