On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > - Mark Kim's "xhost+" advice. DON'T DO THIS. EVER. Google for the > reasons, they're well known and tedious to recount. Fortunately, > most sane X servers don't allow this in their default sessions.
It's fine in a LAN behind a firewall, I'm sure. But on the open and evil Internet, yeah... scary :^) As bad as (if not worse than!) using telnet to login, or non-anonymous FTP. With SSH and friends properly set up, it's actually easier to go the SSH -X route, besides. :) -- -bill! [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'm anticipating an all-out tactical http://newbreedsoftware.com/ dog-fight, followed by a light dinner." _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech