Re: KPackage cannot connect to localhost port 22

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On 18/05/2006, at 4:05 PM, Christian Mueller wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 01:27 schrieb Jes Hall:
>> 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 ...

yes, and desperate people are likely do stupid things.

Lurkers: I'm still looking for a cause for the connection error :-)

malcolm

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