Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:16:39 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: James Hewitt <jgh@drizzle.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu> Subject: Re: X and DHCP Message-ID: <200111131716.fADHGdd26719@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:42:06 %2B1030." <XFMail.20011113174206.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:42:06 +1030 (CST) > From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > > On 13-Nov-2001 James Hewitt wrote: > > Somehow I missed the words 'with dhclient' in your post... assuming > > you don't >need< the hostname to change, you can specify your hostname > > in /etc/rc.conf and in /etc/hosts as described below and it should > > solve your X problem (specifying the hostname in /etc/rc.conf will > > prevent dhclient from changing it). > > If you DO want to change your hostname you can do 'xhost +localhost' in your > .xsession.. > > Kind of sucks from a security perspective though. I'd like to state this far more strongly. I sucks huge rocks from a security perspective if you are on a multiuser system as it allows any user to see every key you type and everything displayed on any window, text or graphical. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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