On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:36:15AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :
> Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the
> client, do this:
>       client# export DISPLAY=client:0.0
>       client# ssh -X server
> then once you're logged in at the server, do:
>       server# netscape &
> The environment created at the server will include the DISPLAY
> variable, so netscape (or whatever) will dialogue with the
> client machine. (See "man ssh" for more.)
> 
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

This tip is bad. It does not work. The first line makes the following
fail (or, I think, in case of bad security on client succeed but by-pass the
ssh-tunnel).

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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux emac140 2.4.17 #1 s?n feb 10 20:21:22 CET 2002 i686 unknown

Hans Ekbrand

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