Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 18:57:56 -0500 (EST) From: Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net> To: Bengt Richter <bokr@accessone.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NG report of "Security hole in GNOME" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002231855380.3000-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000223150439.008f5ab0@mail.accessone.com>
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That's completely untrue. .ICEauthority has been around for a while and if you peek at it you'll see it contains authentication information for the X server, sort of like an xhost (I think). Do man iceauth to read on it more, and do us a favor and relay this back to the newsgroup... On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bengt Richter wrote: > The following appeared on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: > Any details? > ------------------ > FreeBSD users should be aware that the stable ports of GNOME > will install a spy file named .ICEauthority and information > about your system will be transmitted every time a GNOME function > is invoked. > > > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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