Remote X over ssh

Shawn Tayler stayler
Wed Jan 5 22:50:13 PST 2005


On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:03:30 -0800 Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com>
exclaimed:

> W:  the command ``sshd -X -f $system xterm'' should start an xterm on the
> remote machine where the ``-f'' option automatically deletes the local
> ssh process.  I use this on a LAN connection, but run the xterm on my
> local machine when going across slower links using this to start it:
> 
> 	xterm -e ssh -l $user $system &

Does the xterm still run thrun an ssh session, ie. encrypted connection?

Shawn


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