>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Jackson <[email protected]> writes:
>> While I disagree that storing cookies in $HOME ‘sucks for NFS’, Adam> I should have clarified. It sucks because NFS is unencrypted and Adam> storing your auth cookies there means the whole wire gets to read them. Adam> If you trust everyone on your local network, great. Ah, OK. I was presuming a secure config. (Or, perhaps, had a fit of nostalgia. :) >> Which leaves the interesting question of what should happen if -auth >> is not specified, but -ac is? Adam> -ac means "disable access control". I must've been just barely awake. While reminding myself of -ac's purpose, I read "disables host-based access control mechanisms." and must've only thought about the host-based part.... >> Not to mention whether -nolisten tcp also should be the default? >> Or perhaps the default only w/o -ac and -auth? Adam> In the absence of a -listen, that would be unpleasant. Not that Adam> you're necessarily wrong. If the point is to make it easier for the currently typical use case of a single box acting as both server and host-for-the-clients, where unix- domain sockets are the norm, tcp sockets may be unnecessary. In any case, just in case I was ambiguous, +1 to the original idea. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
