On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 11:33:39AM -0800, Dmitriy wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 02:18, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Mark Kim apparently insists on dispersing bad advice regarding use of > > xhost + to allow remote X11 access. > > > > I agree that it's a bad advice.
As do I. On the other hand, this whole thread has blossomed into a very full discussion, with lots of references, on _why_ "xhost +" is bad, and comparing/contrasting other connection schemes. In one sense, Karsten and others have/might argue: "People will google and find "xhost + is your answer"" and get BAD INFORMATION! NOT GOOD! But on the other hand, there's a whole /THREAD/ of information on _why_ it's bad, so that people who might think "xhost + is as good as SSH" will see why it is NOT. (OTOH, if the thread simply said "use SSH", their incorrect assumption won't be brought to light.) > When user needs that advice, he likely doesn't know intricacies of X enough > to > know which situations are acceptable to use "xhost +" in, and and which ones > are not. This is a good consideration to make when answering questions here, and elsewhere. <snip> > Again, both of this scenarios are very undesirable. So please avoid advice > that can very easily be harmful to people. Remember that there are archives > that show up on google, and different people are likely to have slightly > different circumstance, and not everyone is fully aware of security > implications. (And even if next email explains alternatives and implications, > user who has a problem is not going to bother reading it all, 95% of the > time. Trust me) Oh, I guess maybe it's just me. I make full use of "Next in thread" and "References" links in mail archives, personally. ;) -bill! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech