On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:19:59PM +0000, Артур Истомин wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > > 'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use > > xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost + > > si:localuser:root', this would allow only root from the local machine to > > connect. Just be sure to run 'xhost - si:localuser:root' as soon as you > > are done. You can run xhost without any arguments to see exactly who is > > alowed to connect to you. > > Exactly :) But I am very lazy. It is very long string for me on my local > machine with only one user =) Here, have a wrapper script --8x-------------------- #!/bin/sh xhost + si:localuser:root sudo $@ xhost - si:localuser:root --8x-------------------- Save it as xdo and it's even less typing than 'xhost + ... xhost -' :) Cheers, Tom -- Absence makes the heart grow fonder. -- Sextus Aurelius
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