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

[Andrew Perrin]

He's right, though - if you do it the way you describe, there's no need to
use ssh to make the original contact. Telnet or rexec will do, since the
eventual X session is unencrypted.

ap

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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jon Carnes wrote:

> > 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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