On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Thanks for the correction. I should've read the SSH documentation more closely.
Now you have me wondering how the "export DISPLAY machinename:0.0" method has been working between the office and home, since the firewall setup shouldn't allow that incoming (new) X connection in. Time to do some testing and see what the admins missed, I guess. Have to think about that one. Nice catch, anyway, on my bad information. I appreciate it! > If you ssh to youre webserver machine with X11-forwarding option turned on > (which is not a default ooptions on current ssh in potato ) you don't have to > export display because If you do that X11 connection won't be secure anymore. > ssh with create display name ie. > > DISPLAY=webservername:10.0 > > display socket no 10.0 is s secure channel that ssh create. +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
