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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 08:59:31AM -0600, Simon Timms wrote:

> Oooh, you know I think I'm just doing 'ssh' and expecting it to work or
> give me a huge obvious error.  I have enabled ForwardX11 in
> /etc/ssh/ssh_conf on the desktop.  You're probably right that it is a
> question of '-X' or '-Y'.  I shall have to try this out when I get home
> tonight.  What is the difference between trusted and untrusted X11
> forwarding?

Untrusted is safer when you don't trust the security of the machine
you're connecting to, but it doesn't work for a lot of X applications.

Kris

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