On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Seth R Arnold said: > > > On a whim I added a .rhosts file with the one word "amidala" in it. No > > > change. > > > > If you want to grant global access for another machine to use your display, > > use the xhost command: xhost amidala > > This is a bit of a security hole though. > > A good way to cope with X authentication is to use ssh; this not > only sets up everything to do with magic cookies automagically but > as a side effect encrypts your entire X session! >
I like this solution, but it degrades speed on busy machines. >From man xauth is a example: xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge - I modified it for using ssh instead rsh: xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh otherhost xauth merge - Mirek
