xauth trusted vs ssh -X -Y

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Wed Jun 27 16:35:23 UTC 2007


Hi list :)

is either of 

1) having a host added to .Xauthority as trusted, and then doing "ssh -X usr at host cmd"

2) ssh -X -Y user at host cmd

inherintly less secure than the other? (or more prone to becoming an attack vector to MY local computer? 

thanks!

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