[X2go-dev] a2go-client for MAC

Jarle Bjørgeengen jarle at bjorgeengen.net
Wed Aug 18 10:25:08 CEST 2010


Hi,

first, thank you for a nice application. I've been looking for a  
suitable free NX low-bandwidth solution and x2go seems to fit the  
purpose well.

I'm using the MAC client, and I'm a bit puzzled that it is necessary  
to turn on remote connections (and hence open the X11 TCP port for  
listening) in order to locally display the desktop received over NX  
protocole (presumably tunneled over SSH) . So first you tunnel over  
SSH for security, and then it is required to open a potentially  
vulnerable service in order to display that picture ... ?

When starting X programs (like XTERM) in OSX it seems that the default  
behavior is to communicate over a internal unix socket. Would it be  
possible to have x2goclient for mac using the same mechanism rather  
requiring the opening of unsafe services ?


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