[NTLUG:Discuss] X sanity check

[Leroy Tennison]

I've been reading the various X man pages noting the issues with 
"traditional" X security and then the question came to mind "Why would 
you want a remote client to be able to connect to your X server?"

I understand that you, sitting in front of the X server, might want to 
be a remote client by executing a program on a remote host and that, for 
that purpose, ssh is a good solution.  But is there any good reason why 
a user remote to the X server would be interested in sending the output 
to the X server?

Where I'm going with this is the question "Is all this concern about X 
security really a non-issue because there is no real need to use the 'at 
risk' configurations?"

Just trying to sanity check my thinking, any responses are appreciated.