On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 02:36:27PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > One must be aware of security hole which may be created by runing the > display or xv from Xsetup_0 (it will run with root uid !). > On my machine I use the xmessage for this purpose, which is much safer... > (I hope :-).
As the text in question expicitly states, that unauthorized access is forbidden, I think they are safe ;) (Soryy, couldn't resist. BTW: You can start evry program you want from the configuration file /etc/X11/xdm/???. You can even start a root shell, but this makes xdm pointless ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
