Kent A. Reed wrote:
> As for xhost, that is an evil program. It should have been banished long 
> ago. The whole point of X-tunneling through ssh is to avoid the gigantic 
> security holes punched through systems by hacks like xhost.
>   
If you are behind a firewall, it is less dangerous.  I have some older Linux
systems (2.6.18 kernel) where that is the only way to allow clients to
put a window on the X server.  Yeah, they will eventually be updated.

Jon

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