Tim Kuijsten wrote:
> Op 28-09-15 om 23:29 schreef Philip Guenther:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, L. V. Lammert <l...@omnitec.net> wrote:
> > ...
> >> X has never been installed on this box, .. why now?
> >
> > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#FilesNeededX
> >
> 
>  From the FAQ:
> "By itself, installing X on a system does not change the risk of 
> external security issues."
> 
> I might be misinterpreting "external" here, but considering some files 
> from the X sets[1], wouldn't the following be more accurate: "Installing 
> X adds one setuid root binary and some setgid non-root binaries on a 
> system, but apart from that does not change the risk of external 
> security issues."?

those are local security issues.

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