Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:01:59 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Strickland <karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: lix@cs.pdx.edu, current@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199507050901.KAA08086@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199507040149.LAA14517@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 4, 95 11:19:03 am
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> Don't listen to anyone who says that you should use xhost; it's out of
> date and a security risk.
Just to clarify - are you saying that xhost based security does not perform
the function it is supposed to (ie only allow clients from certain hosts
to connect to the server)? Or are you saying that the above does not provide
adequate security when there is more than one user on a given machine?
Cheers,
Karl
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