Re: xhost RHEL3 != RHEL4

[Diego Brito Veiga - b04917 <diego veiga freescale com>]

I'm already using X11Forward in ssh.
I tested using rlogin but also need to set the xhost.

Diego

Message: 7
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:45:40 -0400
From: Andrew Bacchi <bacchi rpi edu>
Subject: Re: xhost RHEL3 != RHEL4
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list redhat com>
Message-ID: <46D42704 7070500 rpi edu>
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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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