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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Authentication for an Xterm launched by rsh
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Date: 7 Apr 90 06:55:22 GMT
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Reply-To: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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We have a BBN TC2000 which will be used by many users from workstations
running the X window system.  Allowing users to have their own .rhosts
files has proven to be a major weakness in computer security, allowing
viruses and the like to hop between machines very rapidly.

Is there a nice authentication package which would be available for rsh
under the X Window System?  When a user on a remote workstation attempts
to rsh into the multiprocessor I would like a "password widget" to appear
so that the user must type his password to authenticate himself before the
rsh launch of xterm is allowed to proceed.  Is anything like this available?
brooks@maddog.llnl.gov, brooks@maddog.uucp