Re: Truly stupid menu seting
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:56:08AM +0100, Bjarne S. Næss wrote:
> > also, xhost + is probably not the safest thing to do if untrusted machines
> > have network access to your machine
>
> xhost +localhost is better.
>
> But if xforwarding is enabled in ssh I prefer ssh root@localhost.
> Takes care of the 'long' line export DISPLAY=localhost:0 =)
>
> Bjarne
I don't need to use xhost *or* ssh at all to use X as root:
It works fine when I just type (in an xterm):
su
# <some-x-program>
Should I be worried now ;) ? I have no idea why this works, though I
suspect it has something to do with that XAUTHORITY environment variable
I see. ... hm ... after skimming through man xauth and man gdm I now
think it probably only works with xdm/gdm/*dm, and not with startx.
Well, just my vague 2 cents. It just seems like all this xhost and ssh
stuff is not always necessary.
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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux mus 2.4.17mvz2 #1 Wed Feb 27 17:41:43 CET 2002 i686 unknown
Matijs
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