Hi Bob.  I tried on a fresh install of U5 and it works, or is the  
patch for U5 cause I see quite a few from smpatch.

James
On May 29, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Halton Huo wrote:
>>
>> Solaris is security by default [1], I suggest you use 'ssh' instead.
>> On your U-20, did you run 'xhost +' before 'ssh -X'?
>
> Using 'xhost +' is completely the opposite of security since it
> basically says to disable all security and let anyone use my display
> (including that xterm left logged in as root).  What is the point of
> using ssh at all if you use 'xhost +'?  You might as well be using rsh
> and rlogin as well or perhaps just post your username and password in
> your blog.  ;-)
>
> Speaking of SSH, it seems that the latest Solaris 10 patch for SSH
> have broken 'ssh -X'.  There is apparently a local hijack exploit
> related to 'ssh -X'.  After remote login with 'ssh -X', DISPLAY is not
> set on the remote Solaris 10 system even though the remote system has
> 'X11Forwarding yes' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
>
> Bob
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