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Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working



begin  David Z Maze quotation:
> 
> "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

Unless the other machine is not administrated by you, and either doesn't
have ssh, or doesn't allow X forwarding in it's ssh config.


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