Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 01:27 schrieb Jes Hall: > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 13:35, Never you mind wrote: > | > Never do that, especially not when you're on a network. It's not > | > secure. > | > Use "xhost +localhost" instead if you must. That at least restricts > | > access to your local machine. > | > It's still not a good idea if other people can log into your box > | > but at least it doesn't open it for the whole world. > > Most distributions disable TCP connections to X11. xhost + is not going to let > people arbitrarily connect to his X server unless he is running something > like Slackware or LFS. You have a point there. OTOH xhost + doesn't have any advantages over xhost +localhost if all you want to do is solve a local problem. So better to be safe than sorry. But typing commands you don't quite understand because someone one the internet said so is potentially dangerous anyway ... Christian.
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