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Re: dosfslabel finds problem, e2fsck does not



Andrei Popescu wrote, on 24/07/10 16:29:
On Sb, 24 iul 10, 09:18:04, Arthur Marsh wrote:

xhost +

This is insecure:
http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/x/xhost-plus-2010-06-29-22-42.html

Regards,
Andrei

Agreed about the " xhost + " being insecure but it took a few tries to work out the correct incantation:

$ xhost +SI:localuser:root

The xhost manual page doesn't really say what the "SI" does, nor does it mention "localuser" only "local".

There are some X basics I'm unfamiliar with /-:.

Arthur.


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