When I said hopefully you'll take the time to learn that, that was a general
statement. Sorry if I inflamed anyone.
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gonyou, Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:32 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [Win4Lin-users] Xlib: error
>
>
> 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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