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X11 Forwarding
Authored by: lx on Dec 11, '01 10:29:48AM
If your remote systems have ssh installed (highly recommended), then you can use X11 forwarding with -X option (e.g. "ssh -X" will give you a secure shell on the remote computer with X11 forwarded). Advantages here include secure X11 sessions and the possibility of using key based authentication which allows you to avoid typing in your passwords all the time or storing them in an insecure shell script. For more information, see the OpenSSH FAQ, as well as Daniel Robbins' deloperWorks article on ssh key management (see also Part II).

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