Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: > > The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections > > at all by default. Check out the "-nolisten" option in your xserver > > manual page. > > Okay thanks! > > But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in t

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Richard Black did write: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > Generally, don't use xhost, it is not safe. Instead use xauth. > > But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man > page ie variants of > > xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth

Re: embarrassing X question (PARTIAL FIX)

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Black
Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > display stuff on mine!  This started happening last week (with, > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > I have tried many different things. 

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Mike wrote: [snip] | This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the | remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it | hasn't seemed to make a difference. X must be running on the local side, obviously

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Joost Kooij did write: > The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections > at all by default. Check out the "-nolisten" option in your xserver > manual page. I don't think this holds for potato. I'm pretty certain I never explicity re-enabled it on

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike
D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: > | D-Man wrote: > | > > | > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the > | > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be > | > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: | D-Man wrote: | > | > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the | > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be | > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the | > easiest (onl

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Black
Richard Black wrote: > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > > > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, > > > possibly, the changes to gdm...) >

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike
D-Man wrote: > > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the > easiest (only?) way to display stuff back on a masq'd box. How do you do this

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Black
Joost Kooij wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, > > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > > > I have tried many different

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: | For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and | display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, | possibly, the changes to gdm...) | | I have tried many different things. Typical is something

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > I have tried many different things. Typical is something

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread dude
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: > > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > I have tried many different things. Typical is something like: > > [local

embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Black
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have tried many different things. Typical is something like: [local machine] xhost + rlogin remote [remote machine] export DIS