[CLUE-Tech] Advice sought: should I use SSH or not?

[Brandon N]

I believe so, I'm not exactly sure how that works, but I get this
message when logging in to my home machine from work:

Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding, perhaps xauth program could
not be run on the server side.


so perhaps investigating what xauth does would give you some insight.

Brandon
--- Lynn Danielson <lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us> wrote:
> Brandon N wrote:
> > 
> > You can do a lot more than just telnet connections with ssh, you
> can
> > use it to set up a VPN, pierce firewalls, encrypt X windows
> traffic,
> > basically because ssh can do port forwarding, any simple TCP/IP
> traffic
> > can be encrypted.
> 
> I've noticed that when making ssh connections my DISPLAY variable
> gets
> set to something like :10 on the remote machine, but when I kick off
> an X application, it displays locally on :0.  Is this port forwarding
> or something different?  Any X clients kicked off this way will be
> encrypted through ssh, yes?
> 
> Lynn Danielson
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