Re: two questions (about X and PGp)
Pablo De Napoli <pdenapo@dm.uba.ar> writes:
PDN> I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to
PDN> conect to a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients
PDN> running on that host to the X server on my debian host.
Right. Various techniques for doing this are in the Remote-X-Apps
mini-HOWTO, probably located somewhere under /usr/doc/HOWTO on your
system.
PDN> Who can I make that ? (I have read the documentation of xauth and xhost ,
PDN> but I'm a bit confused). How can I use a secure protocol , to be sure
PDN> that just one user is able to conect to the X server ? ( Does debian
PDN> support only the MIT-COOKIE-1 protocol ?)
Debian does support MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1, but I don't believe XFree86
supports any other X authentication techniques. If you use ssh to
connect to your SysV host, though, you can tunnel X traffic over the
ssh connection, which gives you better security (it's encrypted and
harder to steal the cookie).
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