Remote X

[Tony Arnold]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 17:54 +0100, Robbo wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 12:38 +0200, Henning Kilset Pedersen wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I've used Linux/Unix for several years, and whenever I wish to run a
> > program on a different machine and redirect the display output to my
> > machine, I've done:
> > 
> > mymachine$ xhost +

Be careful when you have done this. It opens your X server to access
from anywhere in the world including hackers who can pick up keyboard
events from your machine!

Better to use ssh -X , if the remote machine supports this.

Regards,
Tony.
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