Re: dumb ssh question

On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Matt Alexander wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Craig White wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 08:55, Rowan Smith wrote:
> > > Craig White wrote:
> > >
> > > >If I have an ssh connection to another computer (I suppose it could be
> > > >the same computer) and I launch a program from that remote computer, is
> > > >that communication also encrypted via ssh?
> > > >
> > > >i.e.
> > > >
> > > >[me@mysystem]# ssh root@another.system
> > > >[root@another.system] # gq
> > > >
> > > >gq launches and sends everything to my screen - is that encrypted? I
> > > >certainly don't want to be shipping that info across the net
> > > >unencrypted.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > only between you and the other computer, not from the other computer to
> > > the new destination.
> > ----
> > your answer confuses me - I am only discussing 2 computers - see the two
> > lines above - simulated snippet from terminal.
>
> In answer to your original question, yes, if you ssh to remote computer
> and then launch a program from that remote computer, everything is sent
> over the ssh connection back to your computer.

Yes, Kevin is right. I was assuming you were running X programs like
Mozilla, Konsole, etc.

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