Re: X11 server startup BEFORE login
Re: X11 server startup BEFORE login
- Subject: Re: X11 server startup BEFORE login
- From: Jerry Talkington <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:25:10 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:42:25PM +0000, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 17:57, Daniel Baumgarten wrote:
> > I'm hoping to set up a remote login server with X11 forwarding. I had
> > it working awhile ago, but noticed that if I was not logged in locally
> > to the server, I could not use X11 programs remotely.
>
> For this, I would recommend using "ssh -X" to get to the server from the
> computer that's running the X server. This will give you a secure X session
> on that server. Because the X session is being forwarded over the secure
> shell connection, you don't have to deal with "X11 security." I put that in
> quotes because existing X11 protocol implementations unfortunately don't have
> much in the way of security. :'}
Yup, that's the best way to do it. If you have to use X protocols (i.e.
the clients are dumb X terminals that only support XDMCP,) then xdm is
the program you are looking to run, not X.
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