Turn off encryption from client to server?

Scott Balneaves sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca
Wed Aug 15 18:02:59 BST 2007


On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:17:10AM +0200, Philipp Hanselmann wrote:

> I tried that (LDM_DIRECTX=True), but I am not sure if is really working 
> under Feisty:
> 
> On a thin client I noticed that ssh is still running with encryption!
> 
> # ps aux | grep ssh
> ssh -v -c blowfish-cbc,aes128-cbc,3des-cbc -M -S /tmp/.ltspfs-socket user11 at 192.168.0.254 /bin/bash --login -c ' env  LTSP_CLIENT="demo" PULSE_SERVER=tcp:192.168.0.244:4713 ESPEAKER=192.168.0.244:16001 DISPLAY=192.168.0.244:6 /etc/X11/Xsession && ltspfsmounter all cleanup ' ; kill -1 $PPID


It is.

Note the "DISPLAY=192.168.0.244:6" in the above line.

That means the X is being passed back to you unencrypted.  It's not passing through ssh.

You should be fine.

Scott

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