[7724] in testers
Re: /usr/athena/bin/telnet isn't kerberized?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Thu Sep 18 19:58:27 2008
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0809181930160.3054@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:55:26 -0400
On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> I believe that X on Ubuntu does things with xauth such that merely
> setting xhost is insufficient; for example, if you log in to your
> desktop machine remotely, setting DISPLAY=:0 won't let you start X
> applications. You'll probably need something like ssh -X that
> forwards the local connection.
>
On most modern X servers you need "ssh -Y", which enables trusted X
forwarding.
Additionally, I agree with Jonathon that we should really plug ssh as
the right way to do this, as we have actively discouraged xhost for
some time now.
-Jon
