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RE: Own XWin start batch file
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:25:07 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: RE: Own XWin start batch file
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
> Why? What does ac do? (Sorry, man XWin and XWin --help couldnt help me)
-ac switches the access control off. This is equivalent to xhost + and
will allow _anybody_ to connect to the XServer. One could easily grab
all keypresses and window contents. Or present fake password dialogs.
bye
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