From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 8 0: 8:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from is2.nyu.edu (IS2.NYU.EDU [128.122.253.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8629414EF9; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 00:07:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hqy2446@is2.nyu.edu) Received: from localhost (hqy2446@localhost) by is2.nyu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA13671; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 03:07:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 03:07:49 -0400 (EDT) From: hqy2446 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: newbie question: ssh Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a newbie question regarding X connection forward by ssh. After I installed ssh-1.2.27 and ssh-2.0.13, I was unable to use 'X connection forwarding' at certain servers. Now I tried this command: $ ssh -l [username] [remote host] xterm -display [my ip address]:0.0 xterm of the remote host was opened and I could run X clients on the host. I want to make sure that this connection is secured or not by experts or experienced users of ssh. And one more question: What is the difference between above way of connection and just a connection to a remote host by ssh(just like a telnet) and run X clinets at the remote host shell? Thank you. -Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message