[Info-vax] OSes

[Bill Cunningham]

"Johnny Billquist" <bqt at softjar.se> wrote in message 
news:n7jfk9$ubu$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE...

> X does not need forwarding in general. There are a couple of reasons why 
> people do it anyway.
>
> 1) Easy. Doing ssh -X does it all for you, so you do not have to do 
> anything more.
> 2) Security. By tunneling, you do not need to have your X server enabled 
> for access by anything outside localhost.
> 3) Firewalls. If you are behind a fire wall, or NATed, or whatelse, it 
> might be that the machine where you are running your X clients might not 
> actually be able to contact your X server.
> 4) Security (again). ssh is encrypted. Since keystrokes travel across X, 
> you could sniff peoples keyboards. Tunneling over ssh prevents that from 
> being done (easily).

This might go a little OT Johnny forgive me if it does. But I think this is 
relevent to the conversation.

<OT>
I installed all xorg-x11-server rpms I could fin with my fedora 20 distro. I 
was finally able to run "startx" and get a 0 returned. SO it must be fine. I 
also install the whol group "Basic DEsktop" I thought it couldn't hurt.

    No how would I set my server(s) to localhost only. Nothing from remote 
or the net? And ssh -X needs something else obviously. HTH </OT>

    I hope you know how to do this ;)

Bill