On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Michael JasonSmith wrote:

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:28 +1200, Richard Tindall wrote:
to do that, as Fedora has rather strict security that removes the
network from the network-transparent windowing system!


Grr. That pisses me off! I hate security through hobbling. It's worse than security through obscurity.

It's sort of like, "Someone may hijack your legs. See this man in the wheel chair here, he is less dangerous. Therefore in the interests of security, everyone must have their legs removed and use wheelchairs."

Does X via ssh still work?

eg.
  ssh -l usernameOnOtherSystem OtherSystemHostName
  xterm # <- Displays on source system.

John Carter                             Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics                        Fax   : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch                Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Zealand

Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.

"Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."

From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.

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