Re: dumb ssh question

If you are tunneling X11 connections through your ssh connection then
the gui data will be transferred through the encrypted connection. Use
the ssh flag -X to tunnel you X11 connections.

However, if you ssh into a computer, then export your display (to view X
applications) the information will not be encrypted.

In short, if you ssh into a box, type echo $DISPLAY, and see
localhost:10.0 (or something like that), you are good to go.

rowan

Craig White wrote:

>----
>in this case, I was thinking I was going to run gq - a gtk+ driven ldap
>browser. Seeing as how it contains the hashed passwords for every user
>account, it seemed that if I was going to do that, it should at least be
>encrypted. Hence my question. My initial assumption if I launched this
>program from the remote system using the ssh connection, that it would
>be encrypted but I am dumb on these matters and didn't trust my
>assumption...hence my question.
>
>I certainly recognize that if I ssh from A to B and then telnet from B
>to C - that the segment of traffic between B & C would not be encrypted
>and I pretty much assume that if I am sitting in front of machine A
>which per the above, has opened an ssh session to Machine B which has
>opened a telnet session to machine C, that the telnet session is
>encrypted between A and B. My primary concern was that the network
>between A and B is insecure (i.e. internet). Again though, my question
>never considered a machine C at all.
>
>Craig
>
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