On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Cris Rhea wrote: > > Message: 13 > > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:30:03 -0500 (EST) > > From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: does simple "DISPLAY=" and "xhost +" not work anymore? > > To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Message-ID: > > <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702101328380.5643@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6> > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > i made sure both systems had their firewalling de-activated. (yes, i > > know that's hysterically unsafe, but i was just trying to isolate the > > problem.) > > > > > I think most people tunnel X connections over SSH now days - both > > > for security and because the compression speeds things up. > > > > > > As a side benefit, if you use "ssh -Y" to make connection to the > > > remote machine, you don't have to play with xhost of DISPLAY - ssh > > > takes care of this for you. > > > > i'll give that a shot next time, but i'm still curious as to why this > > didn't work in the first place. > > > > rday > > > > -- > > ======================================================================== > > Robert P. J. Day > > Out of the box, FC6 had GDM configured to not allow TCP connections... > > [root@kaizen ~]# ps ax | grep gdm > 2620 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 2660 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 2664 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 2667 tty7 Ss+ 1:35 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 > > > Notice the last line--- "-nolisten tcp" is the important part. > > vi /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf > > Change the line: > > #DisallowTCP=true > > to be: > > DisallowTCP=false > > Restart GDM by rebooting or by killing ALL the GDM processes... NOTE: > THIS WILL LOG YOU OFF!! > > When you log back in, you will see the changed process: > > [crhea@kaizen ~]$ ps ax | grep gdm > 6605 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 6634 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 6646 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon > 6651 tty7 Ss+ 0:01 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7 > > Viola! Redirecting your display will work as expected.... ah, eggcellent. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
