[X2Go-User] Is x2goserver available?

[Robert Dinse]

      This is what I got:

/home/nanook >xhost
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
SI:localuser:nanook
/home/nanook >


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On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Stefan Baur wrote:

> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:53:56 +0100
> From: Stefan Baur <X2Go-ML-1 at baur-itcs.de>
> To: x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Is x2goserver available?
> 
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> Am 07.01.2015 um 04:32 schrieb Stefan Baur:
>> Am 07.01.2015 um 04:27 schrieb Robert Dinse:
>>
>>> For what it's worth I installed the packages for Ubuntu on Mint
>>> and it is working.  Have I introduced a grave security problem?
>>
>> Maybe, maybe not.  Read through the bug description, try to
>> reproduce the issue, check for the presence of that
>> /etc/xdg/autostart/mint-xhost-plus.desktop file and its content.
>
> Addendum: the easiest way to check whether security is currently
> enabled is to log on as a regular user, and run
> "xhost" (without the quotes, and without any parameters) in an xterm.
>
> In my case (Debian Wheezy, not Mint), it replies with:
>
> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
> SI:localuser:MYUSERNAMEHERE
>
>
> And your output, if you're safe, should look similar.
>
> If the first line, however, reads
>
> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>
> then you have an issue.  A serious one.
>
> - -Stefan
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