[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu (linux) vulnerabilty?? Comment please

[Robert McWilliam]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:48:11 +0100
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
> Yeah, it will.  There's no need to run xhost -local before running  
> gksudo, this will lcok the system out (as demonstrated effectively  
> above!)

I was running -local: to remove the +local: I did earlier. To check and
see if the default settings were enough to run it without the "xhost
+local:" I just created a whole new user and tried "gksudo -u st
firefox" and it failed with the same error as I quoted above. 

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