On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:20, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:21:52PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > - Mark Kim's "xhost+" advice. DON'T DO THIS. EVER. Google for the > > reasons, they're well known and tedious to recount. Fortunately, > > most sane X servers don't allow this in their default sessions. > > It's fine in a LAN behind a firewall, I'm sure. > > But on the open and evil Internet, yeah... scary :^) > As bad as (if not worse than!) using telnet to login, or non-anonymous FTP. I have to do xhost + in order to run firefox. I found this after googling because it wouldn't run at all. I am behind a NAT router but I would rather not do this. On the other hand, I have been using firefox more and more.
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