XDMCP forwarding

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 22:42, Darren Tucker wrote: 
> No.  Xdcmp is UDP based.  See:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/procedure.html#SECURITY which says, in
> part, "Unfortunately, XDMCP uses UDP, not TCP, therefore, it is not
> natively able to use it with SSH."

There is no standard way to forward UDP over a SSH connection. Even if
there was, it would be pretty easy to spoof packets perhaps even packets
to localhost (depending on the OS).

-d