Re: remote exmh from Mandriva 2010.0 X session

On 18 November 2009 at 20:12, Kevin Cosgrove <[email protected]> wrote:

> As usual I started exmh on a remote host via ssh.  This was on a 
> freshly installed Mandriva 2010.0 system.  I got the error:
> 
>   BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization)
> 
> 'xhost' showed that localhost was allowed insecure access to the X 
> server.  The source of this was in /etc/X11/xinit.d/msec which 
> contains this on my system
> 
>   /usr/bin/xhost + localhost
> 
> I changed the "+" to a "-" and the problem went away.  But, an hour 
> later the "-" changed back to a "+".
> 
> Does anyone know how to stop the reverting of the xhost command 
> option in that file?
> 
> Thanks....

I might have figured it out.  ALLOW_X_CONNECTIONS in
/etc/security/msec/{level.secure|level.standard|security.conf}
can be set to {yes|no|local}.  For the standard security level
this is set to "local".  I changed it to "no" using Mandriva's
system admin GUI (mcc) in the Security section.

I hope it works permanently and doesn't break anything else.

Cheers....


--
Kevin