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iptables and xterm help please
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I think iptables is blocking xterm, what is the command to allow xterm to work.
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you need to open inbound traffic to the X11 ports

or

a better option would be to tunnel X11 over ssh. Then no firewall rules
need to be modified and your session is encrypted.
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I am new to tunneling, how would I do that?
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Most ssh clients have a simple command-line option to enable this.
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