Re: X over the network

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Doug Stewart wrote:
Please review the archives of this mailing list.  This topic has been
discussed ad nauseum.

To wit:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04078.html

... People really shouldn't be suggesting that users turn X tcp support on without noting that doing so is very insecure. X runs as the root user, and opening a TCP port may make the computer very susceptible to exploits.


Unless your machine is on a secure and trusted network, use ssh's X11 forwarding to run X11 applications remotely.




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