Re: FYI-will affect us..16/17 68/69

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 06:01:49 EST

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    Hi Hiro et al, 
    
    On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:04:21 -0600 (CST)
    Hironori Ito <hito@students.phsx.ukans.edu> wrote
    concerning "Re: FYI-will affect us..16/17 68/69":
    > However, make sure to download "latest development snapshot" version
    > instaed of "latest release version" because the later does not
    > support X11 forwarding. (Do not forget to check "Enable X11
    > forwarding" option.)
    
    This ofcourse only makes sense if you have an X-server running on your
    windoze machine.  Some avaliable X-servers are eXceed [1] and XFree86
    [2] with Cygnus Cygwin [3].  
    
    I believe eXeed (which is closed source, propertary and expensive)
    comes with a SSH client which may (or may not) support the SSH2
    protocol - I think it does.  An evaluation copy can be downloaded
    [4]. 
    
    XFree86 for Cygwin does not come with an SSH client, but Cygnus Cygwin
    ships with an OpenSSH client [5]. 
    
    I should like to discourage people outside the USA to use X clients
    from inside BNL - it's just to slow (which isn't helped much by the
    two jumps you need to make either). 
    
    In regards to all this CyperSecurity stuff.  You should _always_ have
    RSA of DSA keys on your account, both at home and at BNL, and put
    those keys in the authorized_keys list (~/.ssh/authorized_keys) since
    this draticly increases security.   There was an posting on /. [6]
    sometime ago about this, but I can't find it now :-( 
    
    Yours, 
    
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    [1] http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/
    [2] http://cygwin.com/xfree/
    [3] http://cygwin.com/
    [4] http://www.hummingbird.com/products/evals/index.html
    [5] http://www.cygwin.com/packages/openssh/
    [6] http://slashdot.org
    



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