remote exmh from Mandriva 2010.0 X session

[Kevin the Drummer]

Kevin the Drummer <nob...@cosgroves.us> wrote:

> As usual I started exmh on a remote host via ssh. This was on a
> freshly installed Mandriva 2010.0 system. I got the error:
>
> BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorization)
>
> 'xhost' showed that localhost was allowed insecure access to the X
> server. The source of this was in /etc/X11/xinit.d/msec which
> contains this on my system
>
> /usr/bin/xhost + localhost
>
> I changed the "+" to a "-" and the problem went away. But, an hour
> later the "-" changed back to a "+".
>
> Does anyone know how to stop the reverting of the xhost command
> option in that file?
>
> Thanks....

I might have figured it out. ALLOW_X_CONNECTIONS in
/etc/security/msec/{level.secure|level.standard|security.conf}
can be set to {yes|no|local}. For the standard security level
this is set to "local". I changed it to "no" using Mandriva's
system admin GUI (mcc) in the Security section.

I hope it works permanently and doesn't break anything else.

Cheers....

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