Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working
Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de> writes:
> When I execute "xhost +" on localhost, telnet to another machine,
> set the DISPLAY to my machine's hostname (!export
> DISPLAY=prag:0.0"), I get the error message that this connection is
> refused by the server? Why? (It doesn't make sense to me since I
> executed "xhost +" on the machine the X server is running on.)
"Don't do that." xhost is notoriously insecure; ssh X forwarding is
easier to manage, isn't vulnerable to IP spoofing attacks, and doesn't
require you to manually set DISPLAY. The X server in woody comes, by
default, with its TCP socket disabled (so ssh X forwarding and local
connections work, but "normal remote X connections" don't). Changing
this is left as an exercise to the reader.
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