Well, not exactly 'forwarding' - setting DISPLAY that way will simply make the remote machine display to your X server; it's not forwarded, just directly displayed. And you're correct - it's not secure.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Vadim Kutsyy wrote: > Joseph Dane wrote: > > local> ssh -X remote > > remote> DISPLAY="" xlogo > > If you cleared the DISPLAY variable the client ('xlogo', in this case) > > won't know how to contact the X server. > > Correct me if I am wrong, but setting DISPLAY=your.computer.ip:0.0 will > create non secure X forwarding, which is a little bit faster. I am > aware of a few ssh servers which don't alow ssh display forwarding. So > the only way there is via regular forwarding. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
