On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 12:06:40 -0700, Rick wrote in message
<20170921190640.GM11717@???>:

> Quoting Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI (renaud@???):
>
> > Anything against having `xhost +` in ~/.bashrc ?
>
> Local security, disabling of.
>
> One different method:
>
> $ ssh -Y root@localhost
> # gparted &
> #
>
> The '-Y' option enables X11 forwarding. (This of course requires
> sshd.)
>
> You can probably justify 'xhost +' if this is one of those
> I'm-the-only-user machines. Thank Ghu, remote network access to the X
> server is no longer enabled by default on Linux hosts. (The right way
> to do remote X11, IMO, is via 'ssh -Y user@???', thereby
> forwarding X11 across the authenticated ssh tunnel.)
>
> One can argue that you should use 'ssh -Y' even locally so you get out
> of the habit of using 'xhost +'. I won't argue that, but will just
> put it out there.

..my prefecence was the -X option: ssh -X root@localhost
until Debian killed it with some new policy.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.