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Re: [SLE] Running RealPlayer binary
  • From: Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 02 Jan 2004 21:07:12 +0100
  • Message-id: <86ad56i07j.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Friday 02 January 2004 1:37 pm, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> > Forget about "xhost +localhost". Use "sux" instead of "su" and you
> > won't need the dangerous xhost. ("man xhost" will give you more
> > info.)
>
> Interesting - my system has xhost (as most do!) but no manpage for
> xhost.

On 9.0:

$ rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xhost.1x.gz
XFree86-man-4.3.0.1-21

> Is there a version of "sudo" that avoids the need for "xhost
> +localhost"?

"sux" and "ssh -X" are the replacements. See also the security section
of "man xterm".

--
A.M.

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