RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org> writes:
>          None the less, I think it would make a quite reasonable 
> default for all *BSDs, perhaps even for XFree86 in general.
> The number of folks who want remote access is smaller than those
> who don't need it, I'd guess.  In any event, I believe in systems
> that ship secure by default.
> 
>          If undertaken, it is important that this choice/change
> is clearly documented and that any clues needed to run an 
> X server without that option were also well documented.

It would be pretty easy for a user to undo. All we'd really need to do
is ship a startx that included -nolisten tcp.

The question is how to document it in such a way that users would
actually get the documentation. I'm not really sure on that
part. Documentation of such things has traditionally been our weakest
area.

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