:~>nifty, :~>does this has any implications for VNC? AFAIK, Every program you start from your X-session will still be a doughter process of ssh-agent. terminals, additional X-sessions... However, AFAIK ssh|scp|slogin are the only programs which make use of the RSA private/public key authentication found in ~/.ssh dir. If you want a secure conection with VCN, you will have to tunnel it trough a secure channel as described here: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshwin.html By the way, ssh-tunneling is a great tool: basically it can crypt ANY kind of communication bgetween two machines, withouth changing a thing in a program used to comunicate! cu Denis -- ----------------------------------------------------- Dr. Denis Havlik <http://www.ap.univie.ac.at/users/havlik> Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quality Assurance (@ @) (private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -------------------oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------
