If you share a home directory on both machines, and you're using xdm,
then the access is based on the .Xauthority file in your homedir.
xauth list should show the same thing on both systems, if this is
the case. (Generally this isn't much better -- it means you're still
vulnerable to the magic
CC == Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CC The problem is that, with telnet, windows started on the remote
CC machine open without problems in the local display, even without
CC giving a xhost remote on the local machine. Is this correct? It only
CC happens if you are the same user on
Hi,
As some people suggested, the problem is that the home dir in all
machines is the same (mounted via NFS from the server), so the
.Xauthority file is the same. That's why no xhost is necessary.
which of course means that the content of the Authority File is transfered
unencrypted over your
Suppose you have a window open in the local machine and you telnet to
another one from that window. I discovered that telnet passes the
DISPLAY variable to the remote machine, while rlogin doesn't. Up to
now fine, except possibly for a bug in rlogin that doesn't pass the
env var.
The problem is
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
The problem is that, with telnet, windows started on the remote
machine open without problems in the local display, even without
giving a xhost remote on the local machine. Is this correct? It only
happens if you are the same user on both machines.
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