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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:14:58 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        jgh@drizzle.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, kopts@astro.washington.edu, oberman@es.net
Subject:   Re: X and DHCP
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011114191458.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011113223516.283337d4.steve@sohara.org>

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On 13-Nov-2001 Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > BTW the number of people using startx (which defaults to xhost
> > authentication)
> > is quite large :(
>  
>       startx -- -nolisten tcp >X.out 2>X.err & logout
>  
>       Is IMHO the best way to use startx. I've never had problems
>  with shifting WAN connections this way and I can always use ssh tunnels
>  if I need to enable connections on another box.

<shrugs> I always use XDM.

My point was that the default which most users use is insecure.

I believe what you run is the default now.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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