Aaron Bliss wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a user who would like to connect to x windows on one of our linux > servers. I'm not use to offering up x windows to any end users (I'm a > command line guy) so I'm struggling with this a bit. I've installed x > font server, daemon is running, and I installed xfce. Server is running > at run level 5 right now. I'm not sure what ports I need to open on the > firewall to allow them to connect to the server or what other config > files that might be preventing them from displaying an x session on > their desktop (they have a windows x server running on their machines). > I know that x windows sessions are insecure, so I would also be in favor > of forwarding the session over ssh, but I would like to know how to > connect with and without ssh to the xfs server. Thanks for your help. > > Aaron > X runs on 6000/tcp. By default, majority of distros will disable tcp with the --no-listen-tcp option when launching the X server. X sessions are indeed insecure. However, the magic cookie offers minimal protection with the xauth mechanism (man xauth, man xhost has more). An ssh tunnel, or applications like freenx / vnc could help to encrypt the session and ensure better security, but usually at the expense of performance. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
