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Re: Xsession problems
- To: Orna Agmon <agmon(at-nospam)techunix.technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Xsession problems
- From: mulix <mulix(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:43:17 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Shai Bentin <ns_bentin(at-nospam)bezeqint.net>, <linux-il(at-nospam)iglu.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0110290811180.14376-100000@techunix.technion.ac.il>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Orna Agmon wrote:
> is your display defined correctly?
> (setenv DISPLAY <the number you get when you write echo $DISPLAY when it
> IS defined right>)
> the display is usually set in the .cshrc or similar files.
> consider xhost + to allow for other users to use your display.
> run xhost + when you are yourself, then you allow everyone to display on
> your station's display.
xhost + gives global permission to everyone to connect to your display.
if you're in a lan, fine, but if you're on the internet, quite the
security risk.
always run 'xhost +specific_machine_name' in an untrusted environment.
man xhost for the exact syntax.
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