export DISPLAY problem

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Fri Nov 21 08:51:00 UTC 2003


Nicolas.Labarta at AltisSemiconductor.com wrote:
> 
> Since I updates my RedHat 9 to FC1, I'm not allowed anymore to export 
> DISPLAY to my Fedora machine. Even using xhost +....

Any reason you can't forward X11 traffic over ssh?  Allowing the X 
server to listen on a TCP port is an enormous security hole.






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