Bug#332279: xprint: any user can disable Xprt usage

2005-10-06 Thread Christof Douma
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:28:13PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Hmm, are you aware that Xprt *can* already be started by a normal > user. Actually that what the point I was making against your point. You question how enthusiastic some systems would be to have an Xprt instance running for every sing

Bug#332279: xprint: any user can disable Xprt usage

2005-10-06 Thread Drew Parsons
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:24 +0200, Christof Douma wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:06:50AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Not useless, only if there's a local user vindictive enough to cause > > this sort of disruption. > I have in mind the usual setup on a univerity, school or workplace. It > i

Bug#332279: xprint: any user can disable Xprt usage

2005-10-06 Thread Christof Douma
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:06:50AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > Not useless, only if there's a local user vindictive enough to cause > this sort of disruption. I have in mind the usual setup on a univerity, school or workplace. It is common to have some malicious users between them. I did not found

Bug#332279: xprint: any user can disable Xprt usage

2005-10-05 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 18:18 +0200, Christof Douma wrote: > Disabling Xprt is simple in the default configuration of Debian: > > DISPLAY=${XPSERVERLIST% } xhost -LOCAL: > > After which Xprt is rendered useless unit root finds out and restart it. > Until that time users must start their own Xprt s

Bug#332279: xprint: any user can disable Xprt usage

2005-10-05 Thread Christof Douma
Package: xprint Version: 1:0.1.0.alpha1-10 Severity: important Disabling Xprt is simple in the default configuration of Debian: DISPLAY=${XPSERVERLIST% } xhost -LOCAL: After which Xprt is rendered useless unit root finds out and restart it. Until that time users must start their own Xprt service