Re: F-Secure SSH, secure X, etc


Subject: Re: F-Secure SSH, secure X, etc
From: Patrick Larkin (larkin@enter.net)
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 15:26:29 MST


Hi Jason:

You could very well buy both. You could buy F-Secure SSH and MacX for
instance. Or you could use a free X Server...I can't think of the one I
used a while back but there is at least one.

Don't know of a free ssh client that handles X11 sessions....

"Jason P. Stanford" wrote:

> I'm not sure I fully follow a "secure X" session is handled from a Mac
> client. From a previous reply to an earlier message I had, someone had
> suggested using F-Secure SSH (+tunneling?) to create secure X sessions
> to my server, so that I would not have to share a monitor, keyboard and
> mouse. I am curious about this setup. I assume I would need to purchase
> *both* the ssh package, *and* an X server for the mac. Is this right? Do
> they work together? Or is it just that if I export the display, after
> logging in via ssh, the Mac X server will handle the GUI part of it? I
> want to be clear on how this is working. Thanks.
>
> jason



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