xhosts

[Taavi Burns]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:22:47PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> If you know no one could be listening on your network, xhost and xauth
> will be faster than ssh but less secure, with xhost the simplest to use.

FYI, on slow networks with fast computers, it can actually be FASTER
to use SSH, as it can compress the X stream.  I particularly find this
helps when doing X over a cablemodem connection.

ssh -C -X remotehost

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