On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:38:26 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue 2002-04-23 (21:13), Joerg Micheel wrote:

[..]

> > The system has to work right away, when installed out of the box. Period.
> > No when's and if's. And don't tell me that X11 is an add-on and luxury.
> > We are living in the 21st century.
> 
> There are people who will tell people that still use X11 tcp sockets to
> start living in the 21st century.  ssh X11 forwarding still works, it's
> only the (often much lower security) tcp sockets that are disabled by
> default.  (And if the "none" cipher is available, the overhead would be
> minimal for even the most underpowered machine.)

[..]

I completely agree with Neil. Being scared by X11 access mechanisms, I
always disabled the TCP listen of the X server, and I always used ssh
with X forwarding.

marco

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