xhost question

[Gontran]

* Carl Parrish (cparrish@home.com) wrote:
> I'm concerned that if I type xhost + that it will open my display to the 
> internet. 

You're likely OK.  Supposing your ipchains ruleset denies incoming requests
by default, unless say, a request is for a certain port which you have
allowed access to or forwarded.

If you haven't explicitly allowed port 6000 to be forwarded to your
main workstation from your firewall (which I suspect you haven't) I'd say
your OK.  YMMV, I haven't seen your ruleset.  (not that I want to ;)

This is what firewalls are for no?  So we can be lazy, not worried.

Cheers,
Gontran