On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:43:13PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> By default the Xserver doesn't listen to the tcp port (for security
> reasons) and I'll guess thats the reason for your problem. I've added the
> following few lines to the /root/.bashrc file:
> 
>    if [ ! "$LOGNAME" = "root" ] ; then
>         export XAUTHORITY=/home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority
>    fi

Neat, but what are the security implications of this.
None as far as I can think of, but I'm no security expert.

-- 
groetjes, carel

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