Re: [SLUG] SuSE - "connection to ":0.0" refused by server"

From: Andrew M Hoerter (amh@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 12:02:29 EDT


On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 kwan@digitalhermit.com wrote:

> First, you need to allow access from localhost as the user that logged
> into the X session:
> xhost + localhost
> [...]
> If you want more security you can look into magic key stuff.

Specifically, that xhost command allows *anyone* logged into the local
machine full access to your X session. If it's a personal workstation, no
big deal. Otherwise, yeah, xauth is the next step.

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