strange behaviour observation

Hi All,
I have observed what I think is a strange behaviour in my redhat boxes
and I do not know, in fact, this is a known and expected thing:
here's what happens:

from my redhat box1 I make an ssh connection to my other redhat box2.
I then start mozilla on box2.
mozilla opens and starts running. while still having the mozilla
runnig from box2, i start running mozilla on my box1.

however mozilla from box1 runs as if i started it on box2 ( I say that
because instead of my bookmarks on box1, my bookmarks on box2 appear
on mozilla that I run on box1 !!!)

Is this an expected, known feature or a possible security issue? or ?

thanx much in advance for the answers
a. ayan

ayan wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have observed what I think is a strange behaviour in my redhat boxes
> and I do not know, in fact, this is a known and expected thing:
> here's what happens:
>
> from my redhat box1 I make an ssh connection to my other redhat box2.
> I then start mozilla on box2.
> mozilla opens and starts running. while still having the mozilla
> runnig from box2, i start running mozilla on my box1.
>
> however mozilla from box1 runs as if i started it on box2 ( I say that
> because instead of my bookmarks on box1, my bookmarks on box2 appear
> on mozilla that I run on box1 !!!)
>
> Is this an expected, known feature or a possible security issue? or ?

The last one (?).

If you run a packet sniffer, you'll see that your attempt to start
mozilla on box1 after starting mozilla on box2 actually results in just
another navigator window being spawned from box1. That's why your
bookmarks appear as if you're running on box1!!!; you actually *are*.

HTH.