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RE: Running remote X apps
- To: "'acmay at mace dot penguinpowered dot com'" <acmay at mace dot penguinpowered dot com>
- Subject: RE: Running remote X apps
- From: Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:45:54 -0500
- Cc: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
In life one must find a balance between time for drinking beer and time for
all other things; xauth requires too much beer time :)
I've never used xauth, but I will probably add a blurb about how dangerous
and vile xhost is :) I'm assuming that the xhost dangers you referred to
were that host names can be spoofed and any user from an allowed host name
is allowed to connect? Was there anything else?
On a side note, I found "Remote X Apps mini-HOWTO" which has a pretty good
discussion of the different ways to display remote X clients:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html
Harold
-----Original Message-----
From: acmay@mace.penguinpowered.com
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Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:24 AM
To: Harold Hunt
Cc: 'Timothy J. Massey'; Cygx (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Running remote X apps
Does xauth work yet?
xhost is pretty dangerous and you might want to at least mention why.
When I first started with X somebody gave me an real interesting
picture for a background.