Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
- Subject: Re: Launch X11 upon remote connect?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:28:29 -0700
You can still use X11 over TCP/IP, but I'm not going to make it so
that anyone can launch X11 by connecting to a TCP/IP port on your
system. That is just not going to happen for security and usability
reasons. Imagine your grandmother asking you why this X11 thing keeps
launching? Oh it's because people are port sniffing and Jeremy
decided to implement this auto-start-x11-on-tcp/ip-connect feature. I
hope you can understand my concern.
--Jeremy
On Jun 10, 2008, at 14:46, Ambrose Li wrote:
2008/6/10 Jay Levitt <email@hidden>:
Is my use case - "remote" X on a secure-enough LAN - unusual? As I
mentioned to Brandon Allbery a few days ago, if someone breaks into
my
apartment, I have more to worry about than packet-sniffing. I'd
imagine
that there are many office LANs with headless servers in similar
situations,
no?
I second this.
At work I always use ssh tunnelling. But at home I just use plain
remote X
(I'm not even using wireless, so, same here, unless someone breaks
into
my apartment =S I can't imagine how remote X can be a problem...).
--
cheers,
-ambrose
The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by
idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the
abuse contact need to be cut off the net...)
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