Re: X Window over SSH

From: Crist J. Clark (cristjc@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/10/01 

Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:49:17 -0700
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To: Greg Saoutine <gsaoutine@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: X Window over SSH
Message-ID: <20010809224917.E361@blossom.cjclark.org>

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 03:18:38PM -0400, Greg Saoutine wrote:
> My colleague came across the following within one of Sun's Newsgroups:
>
> [snip]
> Xsun currently provides no way to disable listening for TCP connections.
> If you need to worry about keeping people from connecting to the port,
> you will need to use some sort of firewall software to block them.
> [snip]
>
> Does it mean that the only way to *effectively* pipe X via SSH port 22 is to
> set up a FW in front of the Sun box blocking port 6000? Any other
> ideas/solutions?

Huh? Putting a firewall in front of a box to block port 6000 has no
impact on tunneling X through SSH. 

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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