[TriLUG] running X client as root in other accounts

Thunder Bear trilug@trilug.org
16 Jun 2002 15:07:56 -0400


On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 14:58, Ed Warnicke wrote:
> NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Don't do that.  When you type
> 
> xhost + 
> 
> you allow ANYONE ANYWHERE access to your X server.  

Which is not a problem when you're sitting at home behind a firewall.