[WBEL-users] xhost problem in WBEL?

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:10:48 -0500 (EST)


Greg Brown said:
> This is odd.  I can't receive a X session from another host using WBEL
> after issuing a "xhost +" command

Are you running a firewall?

>(this bug also seems to appear in
> FC1).

At least in FC1 this isn't a bug, X is not configured to listen to the
network by default.  I don't believe this is the case in WBEL, though.

It's good to note that SSH X-Forwarding is worlds more secure than just
having X listen on the network.

-- 
William Hooper