gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:48:05 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] xauth merge


Could we maybe be a little less excessive in the quoting, please? (I
appreciate the fact that you're keeping the thread in the right
order, but...)

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > busybox:~# xauth merge /home/steve/.Xauthority
> What's the advantage of this over "ssh -X root@localhost"? The
> performance hit of ssh has never seemed noticeable to me. I presume
> you're not going to play doom or descent as root...

It's just cleaner.

And maybe you're not running sshd. You shouldn't be unless you
actually have a good reason to connect to your host remotely. It's
just as prone to remote exploits as any other daemon.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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