<quote who="Christopher Booth">
> Wouldn't it be more secure and easier to use ssh with X forwarding ?
Not easier, because it's not appropriate for running X terminals, which are
completely enslaved (apart from the X server itself) to a machine that runs
the X client software.
Generally, this is done on a secure, private network. XDMCP is comparable to
NFS in terms of security. ;-)
- Jeff
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