Re: Cannot run X over ssh (it's fine now)

On Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 13:28:02h +0000, Vahis wrote:

On 2011-09-29, J G Miller <miller@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:04:21 +0000, Vahis wrote:

So please could you try it?

xhost -localhost

$ xhost -localhost
localhost being removed from access control list

xhost +local:

xhost +local
xhost: bad hostname "local"

local is NOT a hostname, it is a family type,
that is why there is a colon after it.

xhost +local:
*^*

Works.

So that means that no remote access is permitted which is
the default state.

But I can connect, no problems.

Because the originating connection is already authorized,
because if it were not, you would not have an Xsession
running.
.

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