Tag : X11 connections

Ssh -X Versus -Y

Posted June 26, 2015 by Stuart Barkley & filed under CentOS Comments: 6

Tags: authentication, authentication protocols, authentication token, minute timeout, X11 connections

I believe this is incorrect.The authentication protocols are still used (thus the need for the xorg-x11-xauth package on CentOS).This is not the same as xhost + which should never be used.Both -X and -Y require read access to the ~/.Xauthority file..

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