From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 03:59:54 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA18057 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 03:59:54 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA18028 ; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 03:59:47 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id aa23442; 5 Jul 95 11:41 +0100 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa23738; 5 Jul 95 11:41 +0100 Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (3.1/3.1) id KAA08086; Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:01:59 +0100 From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199507050901.KAA08086@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: your mail To: Michael Smith Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:01:59 +0100 (BST) Cc: lix@cs.pdx.edu, current@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507040149.LAA14517@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jul 4, 95 11:19:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 699 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -- ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |