Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] > Also, please, please, PLEASE! DON'T do this: > > local$ ssh remote > remote$ export DISPLAY=local:0 # DON'T EVER DO THIS!!! > remote$ xterm > > As others have already explained. You might as well be using telnet. > This defeats the entire purpose of tunneling. What you'd be doing in > this case is telling the remote x client to connect directly to the > local x server using the unencrypted X protocol. If the local X server > even accepts it (woody and sid have been told not to, by default) all > the traffic sent over that connection is in the clear -- might as well > just be telnet.
My apologies for suggesting this earlier - if I had thought about it I would have realised it is bad, but obviously I didn't think. Tom
