From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 27 11:55:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01744 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from finsco.com (ns1.finsco.com [216.0.231.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01665 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billh@finsco.com) Received: from finsco.com by finsco.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA20610; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:50:39 -0600 Message-ID: <36AF6E82.D5492D7B@finsco.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:52:34 -0600 From: Bill Hamilton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris CC: "Norman C. Rice" , Nesi Unanaowo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xhost + References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was not sure what it did. Just copied the example. I suppose I can just leave the line out altogether. But, let's say my machine were left on and on the net. I'm at work on a unix box that's on the net. I'm running xwindows here. What kind of access would I have to my machine at that point. I do not have telnetd or ftpd running on my home machine. What would xhost + ip allow me (if ip was this machine here at work) ??? Chris wrote: > > I think over any type of network it's a security hazzard. Why not just > use xhost + hostname or xhost + ip ? > > That will only grant access from those machines.. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message