Re: "Can't open display" problems
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:39:37AM +0100, Tibor D. wrote:
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> >
> > On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's
> > a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart
> > X.
> >
> > I had the same problem.
>
>
> Yeah, me too, but why do you think that's a *nice* line? I don't get it
> why that "-nolisten tcp" is there, or why you couldn't choose the
> setting during installation.
> Does anybody know?
X isn't very secure. Turning off tcp listening by default adds greatly
to your X security. Many people never use a networked X...
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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