Re: [tlug] Forwarding X and SSH

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:59:12PM +0900, Jim O'Connell wrote:

> I knew that you could forward X programs, but thought you had to set some
> display variables and frankly I never had a use for it before.

> Anyway, my question is this: If I open up a remote program while using SSH,
> is the entire program being transmitted in an encrypted fashion, or is it
> spawning a non-encrypted X session? (In which case, I better take a look at
> what my firewall isn't doing right...)

That's an interesting question.  I'm not sure what the answer is,
but here's ref that might be of interest.  It looks like you can
at least explicitly demand that the display come back over ssh
without too much fuss.

  http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/~sigos/projects/ssh/forwarding

Hope it helps,
Frank