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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 ?

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Khetan Gajjar
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