Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:48:22 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Doug Poland <dpoland@execpc.com> Cc: "Dimitri T." <midios4@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X windows remotely? Message-ID: <20000613094821.B57845@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAOENLDPAA.dpoland@execpc.com>; from dpoland@execpc.com on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:37:03AM -0500 References: <20000613131511.43256.qmail@hotmail.com> <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIAOENLDPAA.dpoland@execpc.com>
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 09:37:03AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > On the Xserver as root# xhost Xclient_machine_name > Then, launch you X apps with the -display switch, i.e., I don't know why you're doing that as root, but in any case xhost is an insecure mechanism and we should not encourage new users to learn it. It does not differentiate between different users on the client machine. That's why my friends and I wasted hours of our undergraduate lives changing each other's backgrounds and putting xroach, etc., on each other's displays. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html for an overview of X authentication methods. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Inertia is a property http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * of matter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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