Re: F-Secure SSH, secure X, etc


Subject: Re: F-Secure SSH, secure X, etc
From: Guillaume Marçais (gus@nist.gov)
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 15:36:36 MST


  For a free Mac X Server, see:
http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/

  To be honest I haven't try it! Does any one out there have any coments
about it?

  Guillaume

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Patrick Larkin wrote:

> 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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