Re: [UUG/MLUG] RH 6.1 printer setup

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Blake C. Lewis wrote:

> > If so, that won't work either (or at least didn't used to) in usual
> > set-ups because of a security concern.  Or, it's possible you can get
> > around that by telling X it's okay for user root to throw apps on user
> > random's display.
> 
> xhost + localhost will allow any user on your local machine to display
> to the Xserver.

Yes, but I was under the impression that this kind of thing was not
usually encouraged from a security standpoint (I mean, using xhost at
all... :-)).  I would have thought another answer to this would be to
have printtool default to a text-only utility if it couldn't use the
display.

jking