Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about the idea of running the x server directly from init, > > and using xdmcp? Is that bogus? > > In fact, someone sent in reasonable-looking patches that do just that, > not long before I stopped working on X; they should be in one of the X > b

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-08 Thread Raul Miller
Gregory S. Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would this be the default TERM value for xterm? I assume you realize > that this means any user telnetting from a debian machine to any other > distribution or OS will not get a useful terminal. If you read the howto, you'd see that there was a handlin

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-08 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) There needs to be a new terminal type, xterm-debian, which tracks the > latest XFree86 xterm entry but incorporates our keyboard policy (and > anything else we want to customize). I need to coordinate with the > ncurses-base maintainer and some o

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-08 Thread Mark W. Eichin
> What about the idea of running the x server directly from init, > and using xdmcp? Is that bogus? In fact, someone sent in reasonable-looking patches that do just that, not long before I stopped working on X; they should be in one of the X bug reports on the subject. I'd have to dig to find t

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-07 Thread Raul Miller
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3) We have the magical mystical respawning-xdm-on-broken-configuration > problem. What about the idea of running the x server directly from init, and using xdmcp? Is that bogus? -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-07 Thread Branden Robinson
I'm group replying, so Ray, please don't take some of the griping below personally. :) On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:12:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Package: xbase > > Version: 3.3.2.1-1 > > Severity: critical > > > > XFree86 3.3.2.2 has been released. According to >

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-06 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: xbase > Version: 3.3.2.1-1 > Severity: critical > > XFree86 3.3.2.2 has been released. According to > http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.2/RELNOTES3.html#3 : > :3.3.2 patch 2 (aka 3.3.2.2) fixes some security bugs, a denial of service > :problem with xdm, a few gcc 2.8.