Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:12:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: billh@finsco.com (Bill Hamilton) Cc: chrismar@readington.com, nrice@emu.sourcee.com, nesi_unanaowo@net.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xhost + Message-ID: <199901272012.PAA18054@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <36AF6E82.D5492D7B@finsco.com> from Bill Hamilton at "Jan 27, 99 01:52:34 pm"
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Bill Hamilton wrote, > I was not sure what it did. Just copied the example. > I suppose I can just leave the line out altogether. > But, let's say my machine were left on and on the net. > I'm at work on a unix box that's on the net. > I'm running xwindows here. > What kind of access would I have to my machine at that point. You have it backwards. Having your home computer open does nothing. You'd want to give your home computer acess to the one you're on. That is, give your home computer the ability to open windows on the computer you are working with. (As a matter of fact, I am composing this letter on an emacs window on my computer at work, but emacs is actually running on my home computer. I'm also running the X connetion through ssh, but that's a whole other issue.) > I do not have telnetd or ftpd running on my home machine. Do you have inetd running? Have you disabled telnetd and ftpd within that? If the answers are 'yes' and 'no' then telnetd and ftpd are effectively enabled on your machine. > What would xhost + ip allow me (if ip was this machine here at work) ??? Nothing, like I said, you'd want to give your home computer access to the one at work... except if you want to do work at home in the evening, you then would reverse the process. > Chris wrote: > > > > I think over any type of network it's a security hazzard. Why not just > > use xhost + hostname or xhost + ip ? > > > > That will only grant access from those machines.. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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