[TriLUG] X sessions through SSH

Chris Hedemark chris at yonderway.com
Wed Nov 6 11:47:30 EST 2002


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On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 11:18 AM, Henryk M. Kowalski wrote:

> ssh_conf is set up w/ X forwarding turned on by default on my 
> machine...

This probably varies from distro to distro.

> This still doesn't completely answer the question.  If X forwarding is 
> ON,
> are ALL apps launched on remote machine w/ display on local machine
> 'encrypted'?

Anything going through the ssh tunnel is encrypted.

> Is the kde/gnome/wmaker session encrypted?  If not, is there a way to 
> do
> it?

If it is going through the ssh tunnel, yes.

Chris Hedemark
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com


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