On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:06:33PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Given that concern, you might want to consider avoiding xauth, because
> it's a serious security hazard. Doing "ssh -X user at host" is my
uh... ok, yes, ssh -X is better, but that's to avoid xhost, not xauth.
ssh -X uses xauth. xhost should be avoided because it's host based
"security."
however all that avoids the point that he was trying to get things
working first, and it's best to debug one problem at a time.
kevin
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