[vtkusers] Re: Offscreen Rendering

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

hi,

Randy is absolutely right but if you are bothered about security
running 'xhost +' is a bad idea.  for instance it is easily possible
for someone to find out what keys you are typing.  It is much better
to use xauth.

http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/resources/xsecurity.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=mit-magic-cookie


prabhu

>>>>> "RH" == Randy Heiland <heiland at ncsa.uiuc.edu> writes:

    RH> It's *running* your pgm remotely that's the problem, not
    RH> *compiling* remotely.

    RH> Try the following things:

    RH> where: R=remote computer you're telneted in from H=host
    RH> computer running the pgm

    RH> 1) from R do a 'xhost +<name of H>', e.g., 'xhost +marvin',
    RH> then try to run

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