What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

[Dick Davies]

* Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> [0626 23:26]:
> > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 23:20:41 +0100
> > From: Dick Davies <rasputnik at hellooperator.net>
> > 
> > * Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> [0616 23:16]:
> > > > Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 00:11:14 +0200
> > > > From: Claus Guttesen <kometen at gmail.com>
> > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> > > > 
> > > > > What are people using for remote X displays on amd64 machines?
> > > > 
> > > > What about 'ssh -X remote-machine'?
> > > 
> > > 'ssh -Y remote-machine' is more likely to be useful on more recent
> > > versions of ssh.
> > 
> > Not if you're sshing into a multi-user machine, unless I've misunderstood
> > what '-Y' does.
> 
> You understand fairly correctly. If the remote system is multi-user and
> all users are not trusted (by you, personally and by others if it is
> work related), -X should be used. The problem is that most X
> apps won't run with -X. :-(  Even a simple xclock would not work for me.

I've had success scping ~/.Xauthority over from the xserver/ssh-client end
to the xclient/ssh-server end.

But again, I only just found out about -Y so may well be getting the wrong end
of the stick here...

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