Remote X over ssh

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Wed Jan 5 23:27:53 PST 2005


On Wed, Jan 05, 2005, Shawn Tayler wrote:
>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?

Ayup.

Bill
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