xhost RHEL3 != RHEL4
Andrew Bacchi
bacchi at rpi.edu
Tue Aug 28 13:45:40 UTC 2007
I find no need to use xhost in RHEL4. But I did find I needed to allow
X in the ssh command.
ssh -X -l username hostname
That will allow ssh to forward the X session to your client.
Diego Brito Veiga - b04917 wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> From RHEL3 to RHEL4 there was some security improvements on gdm.conf file.
> I know that I need to enable the gdm.conf DisallowTCP=false, set the
> DISPLAY and do a xhost <machine> to open remote X windows.
> End users concerns:
> Is there a way to avoid the xhost <machine>? Just like RHEL3: set the
> DISPLAY and open the remote X windows.
>
> Cheers
>
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