Permissions: xhost +

[Matthew Carpenter]

Alan Jackson wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:17:49 -0500
>Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
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>>The answer was the xserver.
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>>xhost + solved the problem.
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>It's much more secure to use 
>xhost +hostname
>for whatever host you want to be able to open X clients.
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>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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Please use "xhost localhost" as this only allows local processes access 
to the screen...