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Henning Kilset Pedersen henning at mopo.no
Fri Sep 2 21:39:39 UTC 2005


Erik Bågfors wrote:
> You are missing 
> 1) This is VERY insecure
> 2) This has been disabled by default in most linux distribution because of this
> 3) Use ssh instead.
> 
> ssh -X host
> then run your application.

I appreciate the security concerns - but this is inside a corporate 
firewall between two local machines, and i couldn't really give a jack's 
a** about security in this case :)

But thanks for the tip. Sometimes old-skool should stay in the past, I 
guess :)




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