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Re: [jstevens@eng.mcd.mot.com: Xfree broken]



On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:58:18PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote:
> [Error messages from John]
> 
> [Branden -- will the Xwrapper.config 'console' or 'root' option prevent
> client connections from other hosts? Or does this effect only who can
> run X locally, as I hope it does? :]

The latter.  The X wrapper is a setuid program that simply tries to enforce
a permissions mechanism on the literal execution of the X server program
itself.

It therefore has no impact on client connections whatsoever.

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