* Anibal Vasquez wrote on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 00:05 +0200:
Has someone of you ever set up an encrypted X-connection between an xdm and an X-server? What has to be done for it? Could you please lead me to the right info sources?
Do you need an encrypted tunnel between xdm and the server or between xdm and the client? I think the later, ain't? Without xdm it's easy: just ssh to the server, that's it. SSH sets up X-forwarding automatically, and sets DISPLAY to localhost:<some high free number>, i.e. localhost:10 or so. The ssh takes care of forwarding the connection to the machine to started ssh, and takes care about session cookies etc. If you really need a complete session with xdm, you could set up ssh portforwaring before connecting. In that case you enable an ssh connection, forward the needed port(s) (i.e. 6000 IIRC), and connect to localhost. SSH forwards this connection encrypted to the other machine. Alternativly you could use stunnel or similar, but I haven't found a hint at the first look. oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.