Re: Can't run remote X apps
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:57:19AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
| I have a debian potato machine, upgraded with teh Progeny stuff, and the
| 2.4.9 kernel. I'm runing XFree86$. During the install a rference came up
| about editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to allow the X server to listen on a
| TCP port, so that remote X apps could display on this amchine.
|
| I thought I did this corectly, and I have dome xhost +, but I still cannot
| get remote X apps to display. The error out, saying the can't get per
| session information.
|
| Sugestiosn?
Undo what you just did, then 'apt-get install ssh'. The reason is if
X is listening to a TCP port itself, then it is sending unencrypted
display data across the network and anyone with a packet sniffer can
read it. Instead use the X forwarding feature of ssh to cause the
display stream to be forwarded to the X server over the encrypted ssh
connection. In addition, it sets up the DISPLAY environment and
everything else for you.
HTH,
-D
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