On Sunday March 25 2018 13:58:52 Jeremy Sequoia wrote:

> If you disable it, then startx won't be able to trigger actions that require 
> escalated privileges, such as updating the system wide font caches

XQuartz finds my fonts just fine as far as I can tell (or at least FontConfig 
does, which is good enough for me).

> and creating /tmp/.X11-unix (et al) with secure ownership.

> data security

Security against what and what kind of data? The only remote X11 access I ever 
do (ascending and descending) is to/from trusted hosts on a LAN, where a priori 
it's safe enough to do `xhost +` and forego ssh tunnelling in order to get the 
best bandwidth.

Now that you mention it: I don't even have a .X11-unix directory , is that the 
reason I have to do the xhost dance to be able to make remote connections, also 
on the Linux machine I often display on?

R.


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