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To: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:20:41 BST."
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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:26:09 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine? 
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> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:20:41 +0100
> From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
> 
> * Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> [0616 23:16]:
> > > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:11:14 +0200
> > > From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com>
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > > What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?
> > > 
> > > What about 'ssh -X remote-machine'?
> > 
> > 'ssh -Y remote-machine' is more likely to be useful on more recent
> > versions of ssh.
> 
> Not if you're sshing into a multi-user machine, unless I've misunderstood
> what '-Y' does.

You understand fairly correctly. If the remote system is multi-user and
all users are not trusted (by you, personally and by others if it is
work related), -X should be used. The problem is that most X
apps won't run with -X. :-(  Even a simple xclock would not work for me.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634