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Re: export DISPLAY / remote Xclient?



hiya,

security-wise, this isn't the greatest of ideas for a few reasons.
first of all, can you ssh to this hp-ux machine instead of telneting?
it goes without saying why that's bad.  in addition, forwarding x
in the clear is not a good idea, because it's only slightly more
complicated to sniff out keystrokes than telnet.  if you can use ssh,
you can do

$ ssh -X your.host.name

which will automatically forward x through the same secure tunnel that
you're using for your safely encrypted login session.

--sean

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