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On 22 February 2011 13:45, Nick Copeland  wrote:

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>> 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.
>

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> 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

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> 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

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