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Re: security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server
- From: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp dot com>
- To: "roland at webde" <devzero at web dot de>
- Cc: "Keith Whitwell" <keith at tungstengraphics dot com>, "Keith Packard" <keithp at keithp dot com>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, xserver at pdx dot freedesktop dot org
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 01:35:20 -0800
- Subject: Re: security, cvs, was Re: interface bindings of x-server
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Around 10 o'clock on Nov 19, "roland@webde" wrote:
> the only chance to get rid of it, is to use unix domain socket (via
> -nolisten tcp)
That option should be the default; ssh refuses to listen on a unix
domain socket, but appears quite happy to connect to a unix domain
socket.
I don't know of any compelling reason to run X raw over TCP/IP these days;
it's insecure, and a bandwidth pig.
-keith