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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!nec-gw!nec-tyo!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!wsservra!onoe
  2. From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Stephen Gildea)
  3. Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
  4. Subject: Re: Too much X Security!
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.023748.21650@sm.sony.co.jp>
  6. Date: 30 Dec 92 02:37:48 GMT
  7. Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
  8. Distribution: fj
  9. Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
  10. Lines: 12
  11. Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
  12.  
  13. Message-Id: <9212292340.AA06902@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
  14. In-Reply-To: <1992Dec29.070156.8713@panix.com>
  15. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:40:27 EST
  16.  
  17. Assuming you are using xdm (you don't say), you can disable security
  18. by setting xdm's "authorize" resource to "false" for that display.
  19. See the xdm manual page.
  20.  
  21. Be sure to do this only for stand-alone machines!
  22.  
  23.  < Stephen
  24.    MIT X Consortium
  25.