Re: XDM Insecurity revisited

[tom () RADAR TU-GRAZ AC AT (Thomas Leitner)]

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Jochen Bauer wrote:

> However, this warning seemed to have little effect as (at least)
> Digital Unix 4.0E, SuSE Linux 6.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.0 are still

Digital Unix 4.0x with C2 security enabled, does not have this problem.
You get a "Cannot obtain database information on this terminal" message
box when trying to login from an X server which is not authorized in
the /etc/auth/system/ttys database.

Tom

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