Re: xhost not working?

Pekka Pietikainen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> If you wish to enable this - add the following to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf - and restart X
> 
> DisallowTCP=false
> 
> Disclaimer: this usage - via 'xhost +' is insecure - and should be avoided.
And for educational purposes, a semi-secure way to accomplish the same
is with xauth. xauth list on the local machine, xauth add machinename:0
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 <cookie>. Or xauth merge .Xauthority (which you need
to copy over if it's a different machine)

Use SSH X forwarding if you can, though.

-- 
Pekka Pietikainen


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