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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:14:56 +0100 (BST)
From:      Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, tbalfe@tioga.com
Subject:   Re: X
Message-ID:  <jacs-9603180914.AA00011475@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199604172323.IAA10788@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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Michael Smith says: 
>> 
>> Thomas J Balfe stands accused of saying:
>> > 
>> > Is it safer to run xdmcp or rexecd? I want to have some of my 
>> > machintoshes have access to a machine of mine for X. I am assuming that 
>> > rsh is the wrong way to go about it. 
>> 
>> Correct.  xdmcp is good.
>> 

If you need to up the level of security you can use DES authentication 
(via xdmcp) with the -cookie option on your X server. However, you 
will need to recompile your X world under FreeBSD as the standard X 
binary release does not support it. 



Chris



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