On 22 February 2011 13:45, Nick Copeland <nickycopeland(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
ATM it
doesn't even provide network transparency. Which means you can't
even do the equivalent of ssh -X.
Does anybody even use this feature anymore?
All the time. It is an essential remote administration tool in the
UNIX (increasingly Linux) world. I have no idea how I could live
without it.
It is another pet beef, though. Most Linux desktop distributions disable the
TCP connections to the X server anyway so the features of '-X' are rendered
obsolete.
And I always enable it back when this happens...
There are naturally good reasons for this: if audio
people are concerned
about
system security aspects of RT_PRIO and SCHED_FIFO/RR then the TCP access
issues are an even greater concern. Based on the fact that a generation of
users don't see the point, windows doesn't do it, iOS doesn't do it then
there is
not a lot of point that Linux carry the flag for a solution to a problem
that
people don't have anymore.
At least once in the recent past I used Ardour over ssh -X (over a
fast network) to make use of a relatively powerful remote machine I
was using for testing.
Security issues are IMO better handled by a separate firewall between
you and the internet - in your own LAN, why not enable TCP access? It
already saved my butt more than once. Windows doesn't do it - so what?
Are we going to downgrade all our tools? Mind you, Windows doesn't
even ship with a compiler.
Tom