[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) wrote: |> Ah, I see. If I want to start a client from elsewhere, I have first to copy |> the cookie to it, everytime the X server was new started (if I try to |> display a remote client on my home station, for example). Thsi I can do with |> xauth -extract and -merge (or -add or whatever it is), right? | |How about using vnc on ssh? Then you wouldn't have to deal with xauth. |I believe there are some examples in the ssh documentation.
Do you want to force people to use ssh? I use ssh anyway (and it's indeed far more secure than "raw X protocol") , but it looks like forcing it on people just to avoid the need to copy the cookie looks a little excesive to me. Back in my happy days as a network admin at HUJI CS. My .xsession file used to have some lines like: for i (batata.fh.huji.ac.il banana.fh.huji.ac.il picton.cs.huji.ac.il) xauth extract - $RDISPLAY | rsh $i xauth merg - end (that was way before people were concerned so much about network sniffing, firewalls, encryption etc..). I suppose you can use a variation on this with ssh today. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
