[Tfug] remote X for the first time

[Stephen Hooper]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 07:37 -0700, ewf wrote:
> Been doin it for years:
>        I assume you have a trusted LAN. Only one of my machines has a 
> firewall, and
> that's the one that is exposed to the internet.
>        I can get away with "xhost +" because the machine I use to make 
> x11 connections
> has an old kernel that was conceived before all manner of security 
> issues arose just
> on the subject of 6000 socket connections to a remote machine. It's a 
> wonderful technology.
> Unfortunately, It's been hobbled by  all the  security issues  of the 
> modern  world.
>        When you think of it, xhost + was security 101 back in the good 
> old days.
>        The old kernel is safely in my posession. Primitive man triumphs.
> 
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> Cheers,
>                                                                                                                    
> Erich

Yipes!  Are you serious?