If you're the ONLY local use, who cares! If you're firewalled and your the
only local user, who still cares? There are better ways, but somtimes
simpler is better in the short term until you learn differently. Hopefully
you'll take the time to learn that. Also, once you've started the program,
just xhost -. It should be happy.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter S Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Xlib: error
>
>
>
> "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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