I appreciate the heads-up, Mark. But this traffic is going through a VPN, so I'm not concerned about it. I will make note of this if I ever have to do this in the clear.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 6/7/2013 at 01:04 PM, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > > In this case the export DISPLAY IP is my desktop running the X server. > It > > appears to me that xauth is not compiled. So I get a message about > xauth, > > but I do get the X window, so it is working. > > Well, what is working is _not_ tunneling X over SSH. You're sending X > traffic back to your desktop over an entirely different port, with no > encryption. If anyone decides to close off traffic on ports 6000+ you're > going to be out of luck. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
