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From: gk@next.com (Gregg Kellogg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Microphone
Keywords: Microphone
Message-ID: <253@next.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:26:46 GMT
References: <370@nwnexus.WA.COM> <2659@pensoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: gk@NeXT.COM (Gregg Kellogg)
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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The 2.0 release closes this security hole by only allowing processes
launched from Loginwindow to access the sound driver.  You can't even
rlogin to open the driver.

There's a facility (called Public Sound Server) that advertises the sound
driver using the network name server, allowing complete access to the sound
driver across the net, but this is turned off by default.

Gregg Kellogg
NeXT Operating Systems Group