Re: Strange X11 Assersion

2004-10-04 Thread Dale Southard
Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the clarification. I had posted that I thought it was FUD, > but my language > was _too_ strong. Yeah, that makes sense, but it was presented to me > on such a wide scale, > that it didn't make sense to me. The key is that random users sho

Re: Strange X11 Assersion

2004-10-04 Thread Dale Southard
Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently a friend made the assertion that I want to get some feed back on: > > "if you connect to an x server you have access to the protocol stream > of any other user also connected to it" I believe that this is more or less correct. If you can conne

Re: Strange X11 Assersion

2004-10-04 Thread Philip Thiem
Thanks for the clarification. I had posted that I thought it was FUD, but my language was _too_ strong. Yeah, that makes sense, but it was presented to me on such a wide scale, that it didn't make sense to me. Would it be correct this this is about as severe, as have a root user at all. (Bec

Re: Strange X11 Assersion

2004-10-04 Thread Philip Thiem
It was FUD. Some silly people had a default policy on xwin that didn't have any host or authenication restrictions. Sorry to bother you all. Philip Thiem --On Monday, October 04, 2004 06:39:00 PM -0500 Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Recently a friend made the assertion that I want to

Strange X11 Assersion

2004-10-04 Thread Philip Thiem
Recently a friend made the assertion that I want to get some feed back on: "if you connect to an x server you have access to the protocol stream of any other user also connected to it" I couldn't get him to clarify at the time, but as a broad statement it seems dubious (particularly the IT dept h