[11542] in bugtraq
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Aug 28 05:47:03 1999
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:55:39 +0100
Reply-To: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
From: Alan Cox <alan@LXORGUK.UKUU.ORG.UK>
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To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <19990822234431.23825.qmail@securityfocus.com> from "Stan
Bubrouski" at Aug 22, 99 11:44:31 pm
> default some distributions of Linux like RedHat come with X
> configured to allow everyone in the outside world access to
> your X-server.
Red Hat comes set up using xauth off gdm/xdm and with host authentication
enabled and the xhosts table blank. If you have a xhost * somewhere I dont
think it is from the vendor supplied system somehow.
Alan
