Re: Taking over vnc, vnc-doc. Also xdm information request.
lee@sectionIV.com (Lee Bradshaw) wrote:
|> Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy
|> the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to
|> display a remote client on my home station, for example). Thsi I can do with
|> xauth -extract and -merge (or -add or whatever it is), right?
|
|How about using vnc on ssh? Then you wouldn't have to deal with xauth.
|I believe there are some examples in the ssh documentation.
Do you want to force people to use ssh? I use ssh anyway (and it's
indeed far more secure than "raw X protocol") , but it looks like
forcing it on people just to avoid the need to copy the cookie looks a
little excesive to me.
Back in my happy days as a network admin at HUJI CS. My .xsession
file used to have some lines like:
for i (batata.fh.huji.ac.il banana.fh.huji.ac.il picton.cs.huji.ac.il)
xauth extract - $RDISPLAY | rsh $i xauth merg -
end
(that was way before people were concerned so much about network
sniffing, firewalls, encryption etc..). I suppose you can use a
variation on this with ssh today.
Cheers,
--Amos
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