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- From: banana@panix.com (Walter Polkosnik)
- Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
- Subject: Too much X Security!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.113020.21734@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 11:30:20 GMT
- Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
- Distribution: fj
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Lines: 28
- Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 07:01:56 GMT
- Message-Id: <1992Dec29.070156.8713@panix.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
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- We have exactly one workstation which is not networked, but many people use it
- by simply walking in and logging on. Only people at work on our project have
- physical access to the machine, really security is not a problem. However, if
- someone wants to use the machine, and someone else is logged on he first has to
- kill the X server, logoff and have the other person log on. We all use the
- system for a common job, and it would be much simpler if we could have it set
- up so that another one of us can just walk in, su to his own account, and use
- the X server that someone else started. However, X won't let you do that since
- the new user was not the one who started the server, and the display is not
- owned by him, even though it's an su from the original account.
-
- Is there any way to turn off this 'security' feature via a command line switch
- or a config file, so that anyone who has su'ed to their own account and does
- not own the display can write to that display?
-
- Thanks a lot. I know it's kind of a bizzarre request, but it would make work
- much easier.
-
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- Walter Polkosnik
- Physics Department banana@panix.com
- Queens College, CUNY {cmcl2,apple}!panix!banana
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