Look into tunneling X over SSH. Yes, it will all work, and you can
even automate the SSH connection after some initial RTFMing.

Do a Google Search as appropriate, and take a look at these URLs:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ssh+gdm&btnG=Google+Search
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:LCcYKSiNdKIJ:www.sugoi.org/bits/index.php%3Fbit_id%3D25+ssh+gdm&hl=en&lr=lang_en
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:CtyViA-ECvIJ:www.interphaze.org/bits/sshagent_gdm.html+ssh+gdm&hl=en&lr=lang_en

HTH,
perdurabo <at> gmail <dot> com


On Thu, 13 May 2004 23:45:53 -0500, Timothy Bolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> If X is unsafe over the internet is it safe on a trusted network (for
> instance my couple of computers).  Can I get on the internet  or is it
> unsecure.  Would I run some iptable scripts to block anything?  I want to run
> gdm and have a chooser on each machine.  So I can choose one computer or the
> other to login into.  There is a good article here if you want to see what I
> want to do.
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html
> This article uses xdm and i'm using gdm but there must not be a huge
> difference between the two.  I can probally use gdmconfig to configure xdmcp.
>  Any help on how to do this on a Debian system would be apreciated.
> 
> I'm a little concerned about security.  But I would like to try it. I figure
> I'm not going to be login in remotely ( as in over the internet). What do you
> think?
> 
> If this would be unsecure how about the Linux Terminal Server Project?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
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