On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 at 3:24pm (+0200), M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 08:53:22 at 08:53:22AM -0400, John Kodis (kodis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > xroach: to remind people that "xhost +" is a bad idea > > > > When I started to work, in an all SunOS network, newcomers learned > without xroach, and much more quickly, that "xhost +" is a bad idea. > > Overzealous, security conscious coworkers would teach us by "xv > _some_terribly_nasty_pinup_picture". Newbies would get the point > immediately, especially that majority to which, according to Murphy's > law, the lesson would happen by pure chance when the boss or a female > coworker would stand by their desk... > Hmm... similarly at my first tech job... we had mostly unsecured ncd x-terms. Our trick was.. export DISPLAY=some.unsecured.xterm:0 import -window root root.jpg xv root.jpg ... and then... "hey... my xterm is frozen! No matter what I click on nothing happens." People usually understood it was in their own best interest not to leave their terminal setup such that anyone could see what they were doing. Never did figure out how to have xv not open up the tools window if someone right clicked though... :? M. -- :wq -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
