[MPlayer-users] Option -rootwin

[Nate Eldredge]

Rev Simon Rumble writes:
 > On Mon 08 Apr, PASTOR Michel bloviated thus:
 > 
 > > nop, i run it as root
 > 
 > And the user that owns the root window is non-root, right?  Try "xhost
 > +" as whatever user owns the X server.

Ack, no!  Never ever ever do that.  It gives the entire internet
access to your X server, so they can take screenshots, sniff keys,
simulate keypresses, etc.  Very bad stuff.

At the most, do "xhost +localhost", which will only give all local
users that right.  Even better, root can do 

xauth merge /home/other-user/.Xauthority

which limits the right to root alone.

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge at hmc.edu