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Re: enabling remote X Window sessions



On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:29:49PM -0500, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote:
> You asked to which version of CentOS I was referring: it is 6.5, the latest
> version. Honestly, having been involved in computing since the first days of
> X-Window, I can't think of another case where I observed the X server locked
> down. It was always left to the user to control with xhost and the default
> for that was closed. This behavior with Debian is totally new to me. Even my
> former use of earlier versions of Ubuntu I knew did not have things locked
> down.

I like that Debian takes security seriously, despite the fact that
I've had problems in the past determining whether a security or
misconfiguration issue was the cause of any "grief".

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"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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