[Tfug] remote X for the first time

[ewf]

Been doin it for years:
       I assume you have a trusted LAN. Only one of my machines has a 
firewall, and
that's the one that is exposed to the internet.
       I can get away with "xhost +" because the machine I use to make 
x11 connections
has an old kernel that was conceived before all manner of security 
issues arose just
on the subject of 6000 socket connections to a remote machine. It's a 
wonderful technology.
Unfortunately, It's been hobbled by  all the  security issues  of the 
modern  world.
       When you think of it, xhost + was security 101 back in the good 
old days.
       The old kernel is safely in my posession. Primitive man triumphs.

                                                                                                                   
Cheers,
                                                                                                                   
Erich
Paul Scott wrote:

> I'm trying to do remote X for the first time.  I have read the HOWTO 
> but it's not clear how much of that auth stuff I have to do with Debian.
>
> I have tried "xhost +" (just as a quick test!!!!) and get "Can't open 
> display".
>
> As the current test I am trying:
>
> ssh -X <remote machine>
>
> and DISPLAY=<local machine>:0 xterm
>
> Any hints or other online references than the Remote X HOWTO.
>
> TIA,
>
> Paul Scott
>
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