Re: Re: [lug-nuts] anyone done X forwarding through ssh

From: Andy Wergedal (awerg@creativepage.com)
Date: Wed Nov 24 1999 - 22:19:00 PST


>From linuxpower.org http://www.linuxpower.org/display_item.phtml?id=147
"... With ssh you can just connect to the server and type the name of the
program without setting xhost or $DISPLAY ..."

-- Andy

>Michael Long wrote:
>>
>> it's just like telnet AFAIK. Just ssh into the box and do a setenv DISPLAY
>> ip:0.0 (assuming you are in csh...)
>>
>
>
>ssh actually listens on a whole new socket when you ssh in. If you do a
>netstat -an you will see
>sockets 6010 (or something around 60xx) which is its X tunnel. When
>something connects to that X socket
>it is forwarded over the ssh tunnel. Very similar to port tunneling. If
>you do the ip:0.0 it will not use the
>ssh tunnel and not be secure.
>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Brian Lavender wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone exported their X display through ssh? How do you do it?
>> >
>> > brian
>> > --
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>> > http://www.brie.com/brian/
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>Mike Machado
>mike@innercite.com
>InnerCite
>Network Specialist
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