"Patrick Finerty Jr." wrote:
> On Wednesday 1 August, 2001, Jens Benecke wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:29:08PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, that worked.
> > > -Andrew
> >
> > WARNING: when you add 'xhost +localhost' or similar that means that ANY
> > local users (i.e. users logged onto your machine) will be able to use your
> > X display.
> >
> > And 'use' means e.g. typing 'rm -rf $HOME' into an xterm that you might
> > have open just then.
>
>
> this is a strange statement. simply setting xhost to allow any
> connections from localhost absolutely does not give another user the
> ability to delete your files or to *remotely* push or echo text into
> your xterm session.
A simple google search turned up this:
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/IRIX.default.xhost.html
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