Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> On 13/09/2011 11:25 AM, Warp wrote:
> > Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
> >> Now I haven't tried it, but I'm told is approximately /impossible/ to
> >> actually configure X so that you can access it remotely. Even though
> >> that's its entire design goal.
> >
> >    I don't know what you mean.
> >
> >    For the sake of it, I just now tried to do a "ssh -X" to a friend's computer
> > (who is also running linux) and ran xclock. It opened nicely on my screen,
> > even though the program itself is running on my friend's computer (which is
> > physically located something like 200 km from here).

> Like I said, I haven't personally tried to run X remotely. (I wouldn't 
> know how.) I'm told it requires spending hours editing the X 
> configuration files to set up authentication and so forth, and then to 
> make sure the server is started, and then to tell the application you 
> want to run to open on the remote machine rather than the local one (by 
> using CLI options that vary for every individual program so you have to 
> look them up), and then...

> And that's without encryption. If you want encryption, now you have to 
> also install and configure an ssh server and client, set up 
> authentication and encryption keys and god-knows what else.

  Didn't you read what I wrote above?

  Short answer: No, you don't. (I didn't have to do any configuration to get
that test working. I just did it, and it worked. The only thing I had to
know was that you have to give ssh the parameter -X to enable X forwarding,
which is disabled by default for safety reasons. And the connection is,
obviously fully encrypted because it happens through ssh.)

> So you're seriously telling me that with a default Linux install, not 
> only is an ssh server installed, but it's actually configured to allow 
> incoming connections and service them? And that X will actually work in 
> this configuration?

  I don't remember if sshd is enabled by default on OpenSuse, but it's
as easy to enable as doing a couple of mouse clicks (and typing the root
password, so that yast can perform the system modifications). IIRC it even
offers you to automatically open the ssh port on the firewall.

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                                                          - Warp

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