Permissions: xhost +

[Alan Jackson]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:17:49 -0500
Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> 
> The answer was the xserver.
> 
> xhost + solved the problem.
> 

It's much more secure to use 
xhost +hostname
for whatever host you want to be able to open X clients.

Years ago a guy got fired for doing screen captures every minute on his 
manager's unix box, which had "xhost +" set.

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