KPackage cannot connect to localhost port 22

Jes Hall jhall at kde.org
Thu May 18 00:27:40 BST 2006


On Wednesday 17 May 2006 13:35, Never you mind wrote:
| > Never do that, especially not when you're on a network.  It's not
| > secure.
| > Use "xhost +localhost" instead if you must.  That at least restricts
| > access to your local machine.
| > It's still not a good idea if other people can log into your box
| > but at least it doesn't open it for the whole world.

Most distributions disable TCP connections to X11. xhost + is not going to let 
people arbitrarily connect to his X server unless he is running something 
like Slackware or LFS.

JH
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