Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Found it: type "xhost remote.addr" on the local machine before telneting
> to it.
This means *any* user on that machine can use your machine to do
things like snooping on passwords you type or sending "M-! rm -rf ."
to your Emacs.
Something I used to use at University was like:
xauth nextract - $HOSTDISPLAY | rsh -l misc2374 cantua \
"xauth remove $HOSTDISPLAY; xauth nmerge -" &
It was actually a bit more complicated because of disagreeing NIS and
DNS setups on the X terminals and cantua. The "xauth remove" bit
might be unnecessary on new versions of X too.
> I can't try it cause I'm behind a IP-MASK'ed firewall. Got to work out how
> to forward X-win stuff. What port is it on?
It's on port 6000. (Try "DISPLAY=localhost:0 xeyes & sleep 1; netstat -t").
The "redir" program could work as well, to forward port 6000 on the
firewall to port 6000 on the real machine.
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