X11 forward in F12

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed May 12 15:55:51 UTC 2010


On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:42:35 -0700
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the man page for ssh is a little misleading (mis-worded
> maybe?). I posted the relevant section from `man 5 ssh_config' in
> another message to this thread. That seems to imply otherwise.
> 
> I'm not at all well versed in anything X, given the above mentioned
> doc would you still think its better to use -X over -Y?

Yes. 

Only use -Y if -X doesn't work, or you are in a isolated/trusted env
where you know no one else will ever have access to the machine you are
connecting to. ;) 

At least that would be my advice. 

kevin
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