[TriLUG] Looking for Remote access to Unix boxes via Wintel

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Mon Apr 29 21:51:52 EDT 2002


> But doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of using SSH?  You've
> circumvented ssh's X tunnelling feature and made an insecure X connection
> directly to the PC.   Wouldn't it be much better to omit the "-X" option
> and let ssh handle the DISPLAY variable, tunnelling, etc?
>
I'll give it another go, but remember, we couldn't get that to work
originally.

And as you surmise, we are working in a secure environment....

Jon




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