Re: Servers with X.

[Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>]

Hi,

I must also need some minimal X packages on the Host machine as currently the 'xhost' binary is
not even there.
I'm just searching around now. I see there is and 'xbase-client' but no 'xbase-server' packages.

I must have to install X-something on the host/server box so I can at least use 'xhost'.

I set this machine up more than 18 months ago with as minimal a set up as I could at that time.
Just a base install with C compilers so I could compile PostgreSQL no X stuff whatsoever.

Thanks.
Kind regards
Rudi.

Thomas Lamy wrote:

Jeff Waugh wrote:
  

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:28, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
    

Is it bad practise to use X on your Debian ISP/Hosting machines ?
Here I have 4 boxes all without X. I've always been of the 
      

impression
    

X on servers was not good.
      

It's not a terrible thing to do, unless you forget to 
correctly firewall
your machines. :-)

    

[...]
      

You don't need to install an X server on the local machine to 
use it. If
you install the tcl app, and ssh to the box using X 
forwarding (-X), you
can display the program on your own local X server.

[ desktop ]   -->   [ firewall ]   -->   [ db-server ]
 X server     ssh                  ssh    no X server

Fully encrypted, secure access to X software on your 
db-server, without
running (or even having) a full X server on the machine. :-)

    

But you need at least xbase-clients (and it's dependants) on your client
machine for X authentication and stuff.

Beside this, I was under the impression that the default X config is _not_
to listen on public interfaces or TCP sockets (not sure on this one). At
least KDE's desktop is by default configured this way.

Thomas