[vox-tech] Exporting displays

Micah Cowan micah at cowan.name
Thu Mar 17 14:40:52 PST 2005


Mark K. Kim wrote:

> BTW, John, you can add a hostname after the '+' sign to allow connections
>
>only from that computer.  Example:
>
>   $xhost +remote_host_ip_or_name
>
>which would be the next next best thing to ssh -X and MIT magic cookie
>thingy.
>
This is still fairly insecure on the internet, however, as it is 
vulnerable to IP and DNS spoofs.

-Micah



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