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Gotchas

No incoming sshd? Try POTS + outgoing ssh (!!!)
Can't ssh direct to your workstation:
chain two ssh's or redir to the gateway (if OK).
Remote Xapps really slow... try VNC.
OpenSSH has locked down defaults. Might need
to change them (or, GULP, ask admin to).
% vncviewer -encoding hextile localhost:1

Notes:

You can automate the ssh chaining in your "vpn"
script of course.

By default OpenSSH will not allow X connections from
any machine beside the one you ssh'd into. The X
cookie files is in /tmp on that machine so not available
via NFS. These can be modified, but requires sysadmin
cooperation at the work site. SSH classic is user
friendly, but less secure in its X redir defaults.

The "-encoding hextile" was mentioned earlier on
slide 12. Maybe hextile isn't optimal, just use anything
besides "raw" (default for localhost)

Gotchas

No incoming sshd? Try POTS + outgoing ssh (!!!)

Can't ssh direct to your workstation:

chain two ssh's or redir to the gateway (if OK).

Remote Xapps really slow... try VNC.

OpenSSH has locked down defaults. Might need

to change them (or, GULP, ask admin to).

% vncviewer -encoding hextile localhost:1

Notes: