- To: Bruce Richardson <>
- Subject: Re: X security and using xhost + and xhost +localhost to allow kppp to be run by a user
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- Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:27:06 -0400
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Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 08:46:54AM -0400, pac1@tiac.net wrote: > [snip X security problem] > > I think you've mistaken the purpose of this list. It's for discussing > issues about producing Linux documentation. It's not a general Linux > Q&A lists. You're right of course, but buried in the posting, sort of as a sub-text is the issue of how to get authoritative information about an important topic. What follows is not a request for information about X server but a proposal for a new howto or mini how-to. The documentation issue is this: It is not commonly known how to set up X security properly, especially with everyone and his brother or sister grabbing a distro and installing Linux on their PC. There's a lot of conflicting information being bandied about on various mailing lists, and the documentation that exists seems more directed toward large scale installations where X servers are called upon to provide services for many users. What we need is good reliable and focused information on using X servers on a single user workstation connected to the internet via an ISP, expecially information related to security in such a situation. the XFree86-HOWTO, The Linux XFree86 HOWTO is a bit daunting to a new linux user. We're talking mini-howto here. focus on just X for a workstation, connected to ISP. Maybe the info is already a howto under another name? Maybe we need to write one. I'm available to help. -Pat