[PLUG] XDMCP and the Firewall -- Resolved

[Timothy J. Bruce]

On Tue, October 31, 2006 18:04, William A Morita said:
> Elliott
>
> Thank you for that info.
> I am connecting only on my LAN.
> Specifically I am using XWIN (Cygwin) to connect from an XP host to the
> Linux boxes.
>
> - Bill Morita
> wamorita at hevanet.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Elliott Mitchell
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:32 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] XDMCP and the Firewall -- Resolved
>
>>From: "William A Morita" <wamorita at hevanet.com>  Thanks to Paul, I have
>>succeeded.
>> I have summarized what it takes to get XDMCP to work through the
>>firewall on
>> FC6 below:
>
> I hope you're aware that XDMCP/X Protocol is not secure by itself. You'll
> be
> typing passwords in cleartext as they cross the Internet...
>
> This is why SSH X tunneling is very much the prefered method of doing
> things
> similar to this. SSH does a good job of tunneling the X connections, and
> takes care of the security. Needs "-X" with OpenSSH.
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If you are using Cygwin / XWin, then you may want to use the following
command:

    Local$ xhost +remotehost
    Local$ ssh -Y user at remotehost
    RemoteHost$ konqueror &

and then bring the application forward to your desktop to display it in
your local XWin.

If you need more info, you can email the list or me directly as I use this
technique regularly at work.

Tim


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