Re: xrsh?

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> 
> > How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to 
> > do those
> > 'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore.
> > 
> > Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets 
> > DISPLAY and xauth authorization records during the login process.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunatelly I had trouble with ssh... the X connections are forwarded
> through the ssh channel, encrypted... and sometimes they get broken.
> For example I was unable to run an xv through an ssh connection, xv exited
> with "server kill" or something like that immediatelly :(

Then something must have been wrong. I run xv (and fvwm2, emacs, xterm,
whatever) regularly under ssh.


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