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