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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