X11Forwarding through rsh

[Christopher K. Johnson]

William Hooper wrote:

>Valli,Jason R. said:
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>>I know how to set my display and xhost.  That is what does not work. All
>>I get is  Error: Can't open display: . I work in a lab enviroment and
>>the users I support use rsh.
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>Have you configured your Xserver to listen on the network?
>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-February/msg03462.html
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>Do you have a firewall blocking the connection?
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># /sbin/service iptables status
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ssh is designed to be backwards compatible with rsh in terms of 
command-line options.  If the systems in the lab were to rename rsh to 
something else and place a symlink there instead to the ssh executable 
it should work and use ssh unbeknownst to the users.  If that is an 
available option it would be much more secure.  Alternatively you could 
place such a symlink anywhere earlier in the path, or define an alias to 
do it.

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