[wplug] Tunneling X across multiple SSH hops?

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Edward Walter wrote:

> It's a bit kludgy, but you can tunnel SSH through SSH.  I haven't tested
> the X11 forwarding bit recently, but this used to work:
>
> ssh -L 8022:host.behind.nat:22 user at public.host.address
>
> and then
>
> ssh -X user at localhost -p 8022
>
> The downside is that you're encrypting everything twice...
>
> -Ed
>

Well, doesn't that come out as cleartext, then?  -g-

-Brandon

Oh wait, that's only if you encrypt it seven times.