Your remarks, as well as those of Phil's, are encouraging. I'll give your
suggestions a try...bill
At 11:44 AM 4/27/00 -0400, David McCabe wrote:
> > From: Bill Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:45:10 -0400
> > Subject: Re: about GUI
> >
> > I'm in a similar position. After installing ssh2, I either ssh2 (from
> > Win98) into my AIX box or I use eXceed/Win to enable use of AIX's CDE
> > desktop. My understanding is that access via eXceed/Win is not
> > secure. I'm not sure you'll be successful trying to bring up the GUI from
> > an ssh2 connection. Thoughts?
>
>That is the main reason I use ssh, to secure X connections to servers I
>need to
>access with X. (It also gives us a valid reason to refuse telnet
>access!:):) By
>default, ssh forwards X connections over it's connection. So all you
>should have to
>do is run an X server on the machine you are connecting from, and set your
>DISPLAY
>properly on the server after you ssh in.
>
>BTW, for those of you that use tcsh as your shell, there is an env var set
>by tcsh
>called REMOTEHOST, and it is set to the host you cannected from. I have
>this in my
>.cshrc:
>
>setenv DISPLAY $REMOTEHOST:0.0
>
>so my DISPLAY is set for me when I log in. Of course, with this, if you
>ssh to one
>machine, and then ssh to another from there, your DISPLAY will not be set
>right. :):)
>But then, you set it by hand. No big deal. :)
>
>
>
>David McCabe Unix System Administrator
>Le Groupe Videotron [EMAIL PROTECTED] (514) 380 4433
>
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