Re: [tlug] Securing X-Window Protocol

[Ian Wells <ijw@example.com>]

On 15/02/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

As far as the X server is concerned, port-forwarded clients are just
ordinary clients calling on (usually) port 6000.

It's really that simple, so I'd be very surprised at anything that
didn't work.

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Seriously, though, if a program expects X *and something else as well* to be available on the machine, ssh can confuse the issue...

--
Ian.