Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-18 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Karsten Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > http://www.campus-technology.com/news_issue.asp?id=153&IssueDate=9/18/2003 > > So for those who may need a reality check, let me be blunt: the > "intranet" is dead. The inside of your institutional firewall is > just like the outside

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-18 Thread Richard Harke
On Thursday 17 March 2005 22:28, Mitch Patenaude wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:21:49 -0800, Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to do xhost + in order to run firefox. I found this after googling > > because it wouldn't run at all. I am behind a NAT router but I would > > rather n

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:26:32PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim [censored] wrote: > [snip] > > >$xhost + > > > > BAD MARK. NO DONUT. OR COOKIE. > > Lols. In theory, yo

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:13:21PM -0800, Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:28:27 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >$xhost + > > > > BAD MARK. NO DONUT. OR COOKIE. > > >

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:11:06PM -0800, John Wojnaroski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >> > >>>I'm t

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Mitch Patenaude
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:21:49 -0800, Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to do xhost + in order to run firefox. I found this after googling > because it wouldn't run at all. I am behind a NAT router but I would rather > not do this. On the other hand, I have been using firefox more and

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Richard Harke
On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:20, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > - Mark Kim's "xhost+" advice. DON'T DO THIS. EVER. Google for the > > reasons, they're well known and tedious to recount. Fortunately, > > most sane X servers d

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > - Mark Kim's "xhost+" advice. DON'T DO THIS. EVER. Google for the > reasons, they're well known and tedious to recount. Fortunately, > most sane X servers don't allow this in their default sessions. It's fine in a LAN

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:11:06PM -0800, John Wojnaroski wrote: > As far as I can tell, this may be one of the few cockpit simulations > using Linux as the platform rather than all that MS stuff... > Additionall info on the flightgear website under the projects page > http://www.flightgear.org/

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Rick Moen
Closely related topic: Opening an X11 client as a user different from the one one is logged in as. (The typical situation is that you wish to open some -- preferably small and conservatively coded -- X11 app with root-user authority, while logged in as a non-root user.) I've collected a list of

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Mark K. Kim wrote: BTW, John, you can add a hostname after the '+' sign to allow connections only from that computer. Example: $xhost +remote_host_ip_or_name which would be the next next best thing to ssh -X and MIT magic cookie thingy. This is still fairly insecure on the internet, however, as

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 17 Mar 05, 2:26 PM, Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > My autoshop teacher once told me that a good mechanic always uses the > correct wrench for the correct nut, so a good mechanic should never use > the monkey wrench (a.k.a. adjustable wrench.) But a good mechanic, he > added, wo

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim [censored] wrote: [snip] > >$xhost + > > BAD MARK. NO DONUT. OR COOKIE. Lols. In theory, you're right that it's a bad advice. In practice, it's not a problem, especially for: 1. Brief c

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Ken Bloom
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:28:27 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >$xhost + > > BAD MARK. NO DONUT. OR COOKIE. > > Please do NOT suggest people try this, particularly... > > > *but* this will work only if yo

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread John Wojnaroski
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote: [snip] I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen display back to my machine

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread David Hummel
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:28:27PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > But this works only if the remote computer has a ssh server with X > > forwarding enabled, which it is by default on most systems I've >

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:42:41PM -0800, Mark K. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote: > [snip] > > I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen > > display back to my machine > [snip] > > "export DISPLAY=my_ip_address:0.0" retu

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
First: don't start a new thready by replying to a message from an existing one. Your email headers will cause your message to appear in the other (unrelated) thread. Compose a new message and address it to list instead. on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:19:02PM -0800, John Wojnaroski ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-16 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Bryan Richter wrote: > Mark K. Kim wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote: > > [snip] > > > I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen > > > display back to my machine > > > > The better way is to use ssh with the -X option to con

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-16 Thread Bryan Richter
Mark K. Kim wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote: > [snip] > > I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen > > display back to my machine > > The better way is to use ssh with the -X option to connect to the remote > computer in the first place. > [sn

Re: [vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-16 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, John Wojnaroski wrote: [snip] > I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen > display back to my machine [snip] > "export DISPLAY=my_ip_address:0.0" returns something like "Xlib: client is > not authorized to connect to server" which seems to ind

[vox-tech] Exporting displays

2005-03-16 Thread John Wojnaroski
Hi, I'm trying to login into a remote host and have the host export the screen display back to my machine With "export DISPLAY=:0.0" will result in the executing program using the remote host display. Trying "export DISPLAY=my_ip_address:0.0" returns something like "Xlib: client is not authori