From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Nov 13 12:11:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CAF37B405 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:11:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fADK9Y695084; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:39:34 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200111131716.fADHGdd26719@ptavv.es.net> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:39:32 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: X and DHCP Cc: Alexey Koptsevich , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, James Hewitt Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13-Nov-2001 Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Kind of sucks from a security perspective though. > > I'd like to state this far more strongly. I sucks huge rocks from a > security perspective if you are on a multiuser system as it allows any > user to see every key you type and everything displayed on any window, > text or graphical. But if you are using a laptop it is probably totally irrelevant. BTW the number of people using startx (which defaults to xhost authentication) is quite large :( --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message