he asked :)

plus If you've got TCP wrappers installed it helps .



On 12-Oct-99 Johan Danielsson wrote:
> dbsaint@bellsouth.net writes:
> 
>> # xhost +
>> 
>> on your NetBSD machine
> 
> DON'T EVER DO THAT.
> 
> If you do, you completely give up all security, and anyone else can
> (in essence) do anything with your machine, including dumping the
> contents of your screen, reading keyboard events, and inserting
> arbitrary commands into applications, (like xterm).
> 
> Use xauth(1), or even better some kind of secure X forwarding tool
> (such as ssh or kx).
> 
> /Johan

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