[Techtalk] Security Issue:disallowing external access to X windows

[Julie]

Jeff Dike wrote:
> 
> jockgrrl at austin.rr.com said:
> > I firewall sshd ;-)
> 
> Wow, you're pretty parano...  ummm you run a pretty tight ship :-)

Yup ;-)  At the moment I have only one port open to anyone
who shows up -- httpd -- and it doesn't go to a real HTTPD
server.

> > I assumed the original poster was asking how she could keep someone
> > outside her machine from attaching to her X server.  I may have been
> > wrong ...
> 
> Yeah, I suppose.  The way the question was phrased, it sounded more general
> than that to me.

She's not responded to any of the more recent notes, so I'm not
sure what she wanted exactly.
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Julianne Frances Haugh             Life is either a daring adventure
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