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Re: problems with running remote X programs



On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Jun 14, 2002, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:11, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> <...>
> 
> > > Any ideas?  Colin Watson says to remove '-nolisten tcp' from
> > > the script that starts the local X.  I'm going to try that now.
> > 
> > Progress!!  After removing '-nolisten tcp' from /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
> 
> Restore it.  You were given bad advice whose implications you don't
> understand.

I do understand benefit of SSH but insecure xhost with '-nolisten tcp'
has advantage if you are behind firewall with slow machines.  So do not
be so harsh like "You were given bad advice" :)  Colin Watson has been
good to me like Karsten M. Self was.

All the discussion about how to set system is really environment
dependent.


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