xcrowbar/ident for x

[nlawson () statler csc calpoly edu (Nathan Lawson)]

> What's xcrowbar, and how does it "turn[] off the authority mechanisms
> altogether"?  In my experience, only clients running on the local host,
> or the xdm host if the server was started with xdm, can fiddle with the
> access control mechanisms.

It's basically a C program that does the equivalent of "while (1) { 
xhost +".  It does have to be run on the local machine.

> In any case, yes, it's true that "xhost -" doesn't magically mean
> you're safe again.  

Yes.  Perhaps the ident info that you wished to log would come in handy when
wondering where that gif was coming from.  :)

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