On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:33:39AM -0500, Charlie Wilkins wrote: > I recently did a dist-upgrade from potato to woody on a workstation > where I work. The default configuration for X security in Debian closes > port 6000 so that serving displays to remote applications doesn't work. > > The users of this workstation are all up in arms about this because they > use this machine as an X-terminal running simulation and visualization > apps on our Beowuld cluster, and I cannot, for the life of me, find the > right config file to change X so to open up the port. > > Can someone help me with this, please? > > Charlie Wilkins <ninewands@earthlink.net> Another solution is to use SSH X forwarding. If it's enabled on both sides (as it is by default), then 'ssh -X user@clusterhost program' will run program on clusterhost, and export it's display to the current machine over an encrypted channel. I guess a Beowulf cluster is likely to be physically secure, anyway, so just enablding X's own remote capabilities might be just as easy. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: World Trade Center SWAT computer terrorism JPL InfoSec sweep
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