02-26-2011
Actually yes, PuTTY is capable of forwarding X11(The standard UNIX window server) from the remote host to your machine, though there's a few steps in the process.
1) Install an X server on your Windows machine. There's many Windows implementations available, lots of them commercial, some open source(cygwin has one I believe).
2) Tell PuTTY to forward X11 back to your computer when you connect. That's under connection -> ssh -> X11. Now when the remote host connects to 127.0.0.1:????, it will actually connect to a socket made by sshd, which will obligingly forward the connection back to your ssh client, which will connect to the local X11 server you configured it to. (You may need to set X11Forwarding to "yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the remote host, then restart sshd.)
3) Make sure DISPLAY is exported to the appropriate address on the Linux machine(sshd will probably set it itself, but it's good to check).
4) Run the graphical Linux command on the remote terminal.
5) It should pop up on your screen.
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ssh-copy-id
SSH-COPY-ID(1) General Commands Manual SSH-COPY-ID(1)
NAME
ssh-copy-id - install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys
SYNOPSIS
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
DESCRIPTION
ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine and append the indicated identity file to that machine's ~/.ssh/autho-
rized_keys file.
If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are any keys in your
ssh-agent. Otherwise, if this:
ssh-add -L
provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity file.
If the -i option is used, or the ssh-add produced no output, then it uses the contents of the identity file. Once it has one or more fin-
gerprints (by whatever means) it uses ssh to append them to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine (creating the file, and directory,
if necessary.)
NOTES
This program does not modify the permissions of any pre-existing files or directories. Therefore, if the remote sshd has StrictModes set in
its configuration, then the user's home, ~/.ssh folder, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file may need to have group writability disabled manu-
ally, e.g. via
chmod go-w ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
on the remote machine.
SEE ALSO
ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), sshd(8)
OpenSSH 14 November 1999 SSH-COPY-ID(1)