On Fri, 12 May 2000, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
>
> Hello friends,
>
> I have RedHat 6.1 and RedHat 6.2 computers in my network.
> Sometimes I need to start Xwindow from one machine to another
> machine. I don't want to telnet to the remote machine and then start
> applications, what I want is to do a remote Xwindow login (with xdm).
>
> The question is that by doing this, my password travels in my
> plain text over the network, so anybody could snoop it. So I want to
> configure this computers to run single use passwords. But I don't
> know to start. I don't know how to configure this. Can anybody help
> me?
>
Did you try running X through an ssh tunnel? That should fix the security
problem, since ssh connections are always encrypted.
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