Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 May 2003 11:22 am, Damian Ohara wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> It's your call. I spent a very painful few months three
> years ago trying to educate several hundred local users to
> use xauth and not xhost. Lose control of your desktop just
> once to someone else and you'll see what I'm getting at.
>
> Putting "xhost +" in your . files was a disciplinable
> offence here :-(
>
> Damian

Very good points all....  however, for a home user, not a problem.



>
> > All you really have to do is to issue:
> >
> > xhost +
> >
> > one time during a boot session as a normal user.  And you're good to
> > go.
> >
> >
> > I have placed this in the  .bashrc file for the user I normally log
> > in as.  (and now people are going to hound me that it is a security
> > breach)

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         05/09/03 
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