Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:50:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com> Cc: lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xhost Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960423095016.223F-100000@ian.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199604222318.QAA31122@mistery.mcafee.com>
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On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Jim Dennis wrote: > Sorry to barge into the middle of this -- but ... if that > machine is connected with anyone you don't trust (for _high_ > values of "trust") I'd suggest you undo it. It's on a dial-up, and when on, monitored very closely. > the net to access your X server (display server). This allows > anyone to put windows on your display, and read keyboard and > mouse events from your session. How would they do this ? BTW, I run xdm from my rc.local Should I be doing it from ttys ? If so, how ? --- Khetan Gajjar Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ Pipex-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002
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