Re: Troubles installing Oracle 8.1.5 on AIX, this time 4.3.3

From: <sean.hull_at_pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <10558.112117@fatcity.com>

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Ram wrote:

> Login as root and execute the command : xhost +yourservername (or)
> xhost +

Ram...

Two things. One is that you can be either the user who started X-windows, *OR* root, and I try to avoid using root unless it's necessary. The second is that doing 'xhost +' opens your x display to *THE WORLD* literally. Beyond the fact that anyone on the internet can start and x program and display it on your machine, there are other serious security issues related to doing this, and it's definitely not recommended. Like running Oracle and various other user programs as root, it *WILL* work though. Received on Fri Jul 14 2000 - 16:29:19 CDT