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Fix Apple's X11 to allow remote use of Mac X11 apps
Authored by: at_sym on Sep 15, '03 04:07:00PM

The suggested fix involves making changes to /etc/csh.login. I'm a little leery of making changes to system files. Can the Unix gurus verify that it's safe to make this change?



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Fix Apple's X11 to allow remote use of Mac X11 apps
Authored by: ducasi on Sep 15, '03 04:58:45PM

My immediate reaction is that the changes to /etc/csh.login are pretty safe, fairly innocuous, and useful if you use X11 and Terminal.

The changes to ssh_config and sshd_config I'm less happy about. They are probably OK, but you don't need to mess with the protocol and cipher preferences in order to get X11 forwarding working.

The author should explain what these modifications do beyond "fixing" X11. If I didn't know what I was doing, I wouldn't trust them.



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