On Friday, May 17, 2002, David F. Newman wrote:> [snip]
>
> IMHO, I wouldn't call that "integrated". ssh is an external
> tool which
> provides a tunnel for the X traffic. I would consider it
> integrated if the X
> server itself talked SSH as well as the core X libraries. X
> clients would
> connect to <someotherhost>:0 instead of <localhost:10> and
> the X libraries
> would transparently use the SSH protocol if available.
This can be done now using ssh -L ...
And if you want the X11 libraries to actually initiate the ssh
client, then you need to change the X11 libraries, preferably
to support generic external proxy-starting commands, and you're
done. Why ask for that here though?
Nico
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