[clue-tech] how do I get gnome desktop to host x sessions from remote servers?

[Nate Duehr]

Yes, tunneling X over SSH is the much safer/saner way to do X these
days.  (Maybe always was? GRIN...)

Those settings to kill X listening on a port are pretty "standard" now
for most distros as a "security feature" by default.

Fits nicely into that upcoming presentation at BLUG... balancing
security and sanity... 

--
  Nate Duehr
  nate at natetech.com

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:19 -0600, "chris fedde" <chris at fedde.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Charles Hutchinson <chutchin at geekboi.org>
> wrote:
> > Do you have "Deny TCP connections to Xserver" checked in the
> > Administration->Login Window tool?  This is the default and if I remember
> > correctly (fat chance) disables/enables TCP port 6000 for GDM.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> 
> The reason tcp connections to X default to off is because there are
> some pretty spectacular exploits possible over the X.  If you enable
> this be sure your firewall is blocking high number ports.
> 
> Another alternative is to use ssh -X  and let it tunnel all the remote
> client traffic for you.
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