Re: security hole in X????

To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: security hole in X????
From: Stephen Early <sde1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:14:31 +0100 (BST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960604221332.1477E-100000@myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] m0uR2PB-000027C@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br>

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:

> The problem is that, with telnet, windows started on the remote
> machine open without problems in the local display, even without
> giving a xhost <remote> on the local machine. Is this correct? It only
> happens if you are the same user on both machines.

How are you starting the X session? Are you using xdm, or something like 
startx? Are you sure that you aren't doing an 'xhost +' anywhere in your 
startup scripts?

Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk

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  - From: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br>

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