Sid Boyce writes:

In another thread currently running on this group, some say XDMCP is insecure and ssh -X is preferred, however, all I've read in my time emphasises that the protocol is secure

XDMCP doesn't care about encryption and so everything you type (web passwords, ...) travel unencrypted over the network. I hope this will be addressed by X developers soon. -- A.M.

Does ssh -X also connect with a graphical interface? If so, what is the command syntax to connect from one host to another? --- John Andersen wrote:

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 08:18 am, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

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Sid Boyce writes:

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In another thread currently running on this group, some say XDMCP is insecure and ssh -X is preferred, however, all I've read in my time emphasises that the protocol is secure

XDMCP doesn't care about encryption and so everything you type (web passwords, ...) travel unencrypted over the network. I hope this will be addressed by X developers soon.

-- A.M.

And of course, ssh with compression turned on will dramatically exceed xdmcp over the internet. Perhaps in a local network this is not needed, but it makes a BIG performance imporvement across the street or across the world.

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Sid Boyce wrote:

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X :2 -query vt09 & That way you can have multiple sessions going to e.g multiple partitions on an E10K or multiple machines. In another thread currently running on this group, some say XDMCP is insecure and ssh -X is preferred, however, all I've read in my time emphasises that the protocol is secure and I'm sure someone will contradict that belief. It's nice to see a CDE (YEEEEUKKKK!) screen appear on your Linux box, it's served me well in working on Sun/Fujitsu servers. Regards Sid.

Its work in olderversion, but since 8.0 i had tryied to do it, and never! I touch /etc/sysconfig/ and change : DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes" and /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config I put: DisplayManager.requestPort: 177 and DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 but nothing happening Where is the problem? -- ------------------------------------------------------ Una prensa libre es el gran enemigo de los dictadores. Independientemente de sus abusos, sus debilidades, sus errores. Una prensa libre es la gran aliada y defensora de la democracia. Charlos S. Shapiro Embajador de USA en la Rep. de Venezuela Martes, 20 de Mayo 2003