On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:36:19PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> xhost +
> rlogin remote_machine
> export DISPLAY=debiab_box
> run_x_task
>
> And I get "can't connect" errors.
Don't do that. 'xhost +' and rlogin are security holes just waiting for
someone to crawl in. Easiest way to do the same thing, safely, would be
ssh -X remote_machine run_x_task
You need to have non-US entries in the sources.list to get ssh.
> What's going on here?
If you use xdm or equivalent, it starts the X server with '-nolisten tcp'
which prevents everyone from accessing it from the network. It doesn't
affect ssh X-forwarding, you can still use ssh like I described above.
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Tommi Komulainen Tommi.Komulainen@iki.fi
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