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diff --git a/DOCS/man/ipc.rst b/DOCS/man/ipc.rst index b488cd738c..83aa018b03 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/ipc.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/ipc.rst @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ can be enabled by specifying the path to a unix socket using the option ``--input-unix-socket``. Clients can connect to this socket and send commands to the player or receive events from it. +.. warning:: + + This is not intended to be a secure network protocol. It is explicitly + insecure: there is no authentication, no encryption, and the commands + themselves are insecure too. For example, the ``run`` command is exposed, + which can run arbitrary system commands. The use-case is controlling the + player locally. This is not different from the MPlayer slave protocol. + Protocol -------- |