Re: export DISPLAY problem

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Subject: Re: export DISPLAY problem
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:51:00 -0800
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Nicolas.Labarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Since I updates my RedHat 9 to FC1, I'm not allowed anymore to export DISPLAY to my Fedora machine. Even using xhost +....

Any reason you can't forward X11 traffic over ssh? Allowing the X server to listen on a TCP port is an enormous security hole.