[arch] Tonight's discovery

[Mircea Bardac]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know my latest discovery for starting securely 
an X application as root.

For some time, I couldn't use the old "xhost +localhost" trick... and I 
started googling. The magical solution, converted from a solaris 
implementation:
	$ xhost +local:
	non-network local connections being added to access control list
and so... local applications can connect via unix sockets to the X server.

I wonder if this could be turned on by default.


Well.. besides this.. I'm totally impressed by the Flow Graph of Wireshark :)


A happy 3.5 year ArchLinux user,
Mircea
/IceRAM

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