[NTLUG:Discuss] X sanity check
Leroy Tennison
leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Sun Jun 25 18:14:12 CDT 2006
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.
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