ssh/X tunneling through remote firewall

[Fred Ramsing]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Mark Gordon wrote:
> Try 'man ssh' and search for X11 and you will find the following on
> the configuration file:
>
>   ForwardX11
>      Specifies whether X11 connections will be automatically redirect-
>      ed over the secure channel and DISPLAY set.  The argument must be
>      ``yes'' or ``no''. The default is ``no''.
>
> If you use the built in forwarding you don't have to use the xhost or
> exports, it all works automatically. If you read the rest you might
> find out how to do all sorts of other things (I can look at my
> companies internal web site from home!).
>
> This is all standard ssh functionality.
> --

Thanks a billion, Mark!

Incidentaly, I couln't find the /etc/ssh_config file, but
/usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.9p2.README documented the usage of the
ssh-host-config command which writes the required files to the /etc
directory.  The past is prologue.


Fred