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xhost (was: SSH = X11 forwarding?)



Hi,

Greg Norris wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:43:47AM -0400, Antonio Paiva wrote:

Ryan,
You probably need to run
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xhost <address of server>
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on the client machine.


Someone suggest this virtually every time the topic comes up. It's exceptionally bad advice... DON'T DO IT!!!

Just out of curiosity. Is it bad even if you are in a trusted network (say, only one computer in it) and you use

	xhost local:localhost

If so, can any one say a few words on why?  (I promise I won't use it.) :-)

Luis



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