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

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net>:

> 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.

Hmmm, then again, I could be wrong... :o)

M.
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