[TriLUG] Remote Console Access to X-Windows

[Sinner from the Prairy]

On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:58, Jaimie Livingston wrote:
> I've been tasked to find a secure solution to gaining remote X-Windows
> console access to various systems running Linux (or OBSD, if you are so
> inclined).
 
> The stated goal is for someone to be able to securely access servers in our
> datacenters worldwide from remote clients (a laptop running Windows XP or
> RHL 8.0) and be able to interactively launch and use X-Windows if desired
> and for whatever reason. The reasons have not been given to me, so I can't
> answer questions about why anyone would want to do this on a given server. 

1. Install Cygwin on Windows

2. start an X server on Cygwin (just X is needed) and leave it on the
background 

3. ssh to the Linux machine from Cygwin

4. launch the X application from within the ssh tunnel, so it's secure
communications.

Done!



Salut,
Sinner
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