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Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)



On Tuesday 19 May 1998, at 18 h 13, the keyboard of "Noah L. Meyerhans" 
<frodo@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Quite a bit safer.  It's still rather dangerous, as it doesn't see what
> account on the remote host is accessing your display.  It just lets all
> users on that specific host display X apps on your screen. 

Much more! It allows *any* user on the remote host to do *anything* on your machine, using only standard X programs (hint: xmodmap).

The only real solution is to use ssh which is safer and much simpler (no longer a need to set DISPLAY).




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