On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:19:59PM +0000, Артур Истомин wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
> > 'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use
> > xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost +
> > si:localuser:root', this would allow only root from the local machine to
> > connect. Just be sure to run 'xhost - si:localuser:root' as soon as you
> > are done. You can run xhost without any arguments to see exactly who is
> > alowed to connect to you.
>
> Exactly :) But I am very lazy. It is very long string for me on my local
> machine with only one user =)
Here, have a wrapper script
--8x--------------------
#!/bin/sh
xhost + si:localuser:root
sudo $@
xhost - si:localuser:root
--8x--------------------
Save it as xdo and it's even less typing than 'xhost + ... xhost -' :)
Cheers,
Tom
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