From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 14 0:46:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAF137B418 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 00:46:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAE8jUS86580; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:15:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011113223516.283337d4.steve@sohara.org> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:14:58 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Subject: Re: X and DHCP Cc: jgh@drizzle.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, kopts@astro.washington.edu, oberman@es.net Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message