Re: XFree 4.0.3 and remote clients
mallum <breakfast@10.am> writes:
mallum> I apt-get upgarded my woody install this morning and Xfree
mallum> 4.0.3 got installed. All working fine except when I try and
mallum> launch an X app on a remote machine ( with DISPLAY set to the
mallum> 4.0.3 machine ) I get an unable to connect error. This used to
mallum> work fine and the remote machine is in xhost's .
mallum>
mallum> Any ideas ?
Don't do that; it's massively insecure, since there is no encryption
at all over the X wire protocol. A much better solution is ssh with X
forwarding enabled.
In more detail: because of this, the default configuration for Debian
X servers is now to disable listening to TCP ports for connections,
and only accept local socket connections. This is controlled by the
'-nolisten tcp' option to the X server; you should find where the
server is started (possibly in the configuration file for your display
manager, if you use one, e.g. in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf) and remove the
option if that's what you *really* want to do. I'd recommend
switching to ssh if you can, though, since it's much less painless;
in addition to getting better security, you can ignore $DISPLAY,
xhost, and xauth since ssh Just Deals.
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David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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