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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:35:53 +0100 (CET)
From:      Cordula's Web <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Mike.Jeays@rogers.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote access in 5.1
Message-ID:  <20040310123553.5061F40822@fw.farid-hajji.net>
In-Reply-To: <1078921348.65457.0.camel@chaucer> (message from Mike Jeays on 10 Mar 2004 07:22:28 -0500)
References:  <1078892001.41520.12.camel@chaucer> <1078921348.65457.0.camel@chaucer>

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> > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:13:21PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote:
> > > Since upgrading from 4.7 to 5.1, I can no longer open an xterm from
> > > another machine by setting the DISPLAY variable to point to the 5.1
> > > machine. Is there some setting that is now disabled by default for
> > > security?  Other connectivity works fine.
> > 
> > XFree86 no longer defaults to use the -listen_tcp option; see the
> > startx manpage.

You may prefer to use ssh's X11Forwarding with 'ssh -X remotehost',
and avoid -listen_tcp for security reasons. Make sure that X11Forwarding
is set to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

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