[kde-linux] Port 6000

[Jan de Visser]

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 05:08, k74yeung-kde at yahoo.com.sg wrote:
> Hi all
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> Recently, I found that my kde 3.5 is not listening on
> port 6000 for my kde session at :0. I'm sure that has
> been the case for some time and I just haven't been
> noticing.
>
> I was wondering if it's a simple configuration change
> I can make to enable that port again. I need that to
> run X applications using ssh.

You don't want to run your X against tcp/ip port 6000. It's a huge security 
hole; X servers stopped doing that a long time ago and now default to using 
unix domain sockets.

To run X apps over ssh, use ssh -X (man ssh)


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> TIA
> Kevin Yeung

jan

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