[WBEL-users] xhost problem in WBEL?

[Greg Brown]

Bah!  I did this to myself.  Forwarding, and receiving, X works fine on 
WBEL.  Don't know about what it doesn't or does on FC1, though.

I wouldn't normally use X forwarding over ssh -l me -X -C however, in 
this case, it would have been against company policy to have person X 
log into person Y's machine - however sending an unencrypted window 
from person X's machine to person Y's box without logging in is okay.  
Screwy policy, I know..

Greg

On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 12:10 US/Eastern, William Hooper wrote:

>
> 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
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