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From: bking@UF.MSC.UMN.EDU ("Bill King")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  X11R3 security hole needs attention
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Date: 18 Mar 89 01:24:22 GMT
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> From: jsol@bu-it.bu.edu
> 
> Is there anything we can do to alleviate the problem? ...
> If there is no way to handle this, I am going to recommend to my superiors
> that we support Suntools and get out of the X situation entirely.
> --jsol

It should be pointed out that Suntools does not solve the security problem,
it avoids it.  If you are willing to limit yourself to running all X clients
on the same machine as the X server there is no security hole.  No one said
it would be easy.

Bill King
bking@uf.msc.umn.edu