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Old March 8th, 2006, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by nixgeek
but if using the -Y gives me some added security, I'll use that instead.
I think it does the opposite. "-Y" means the remote X clients are trusted so local X security extension restrictions are bypassed. This will be fine if the remote system is known to be trusted, but if "-Y" is being viewed as similar to "xhost +", then I would consider it unsafe, in general.

Anywho, I just wanted to make those using "-Y" aware of the security implications.

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