On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:34:44 -0500
"Kelly L. Fulks"
There's also the good old stand-by of "ssh -X -l root localhost". That will take care of the xauth for you and has the advantage of working the same across machines simply by changing localhost to the name of the remote machine.
I used to use this as well. But you need sshd running and you must allow root logins. If you don't take any other measures, this means people from the internet can try to break into your machine (and possibly directly as root as they know the account exists). This might be a bit academic, who knows. But I do know that my syslog is full of entries where people try to login on standard account names through my ssh. Since I've switched to using sux I can disable another service on my PC. Cheers, Ingo -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 http://www.the-one-brack.org/