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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: I'm sure you all know...
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Date: 10 Feb 90 11:00:18 GMT
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In article <1990Feb8.211508.2581@uokmax.uucp> randy@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Longshot) writes:
>This is a potential problem, and I'm sure I'm not the first to find it:
You arn't, and this isn't the worse (be clever... read the man pages for xterm).

[...]
>Needless to say, if you are on a host that is trusted to an X server, this
>small segment can wreck them. [...]
Don't trust any hosts.
Get X11R4 and use MIT-COOKIE-1 (you need to start X with the -auth option, and
use xauth, or the Xau lib functions to make yourself a .Xauthority file).
Then you only need to trust 2 people, you and root.
-- 
           stripes@wam.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
    Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?