[wplug] xhost?

Zach netrek at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 02:16:17 EDT 2007


On 7/4/07, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

>
> Start off by using SSH 2 instead of SSH 1.  Seriously, your packets will
> thank you.  Then examine the use of the -X and -Y flags in the man page
> which detail different ways that SSH can automatically tunnel X11.  This
> has been around for at least 8 years now.  Finally, consider the use of
> the -C flag on the command line to force the data to be compressed,
> yielding some nice benefits for X11 sessions.
>
> Alternatively, you can put an entry like this in your ~/.ssh/config
>
> Host remote_box
>         ForwardX11 yes
>         ForwardAgent yes
>         User foo
>         Compression yes
>
> Then you can get away with typing "ssh remote_box" and forget about all
> the flags.

Thanks Patrick,

I run OpenSSH package in Debian, I see it is using:
OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
Do you know if that is using SSH1 or SSH2?

It will be nice not having to muck around with xhost and set DISPLAY!

Zach


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