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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECwindows security
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.113359@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 18:33:59 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.000733@maximo.enet.dec.com>, ajf@maximo.enet.dec.com (Adam J Felson) writes:
|> I frequently run applications on a remote host.  On my workstation
|> I have added the name of the remote host via the session manager's
|> "customize security" pull down window.  The problem I have is that
|> once I do this then ANY user on that remote host can write to my
|> screen.  Is it possible to specify that only processes under
|> my username to be able to remotely write to my screen?

VMS DECwindows allows per-user security.  Ultrix DECwindows, as well as
most non-DEC X implementations, allow only per-host security.  Some
more secure authantication schemes are in development, but they are not
widely available.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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