Re: Xwindows security?

[proff () suburbia apana org au (Julian Assange)]

> > From: Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield () amtp cam ac uk>
> [...]
> > I'd like to add a new authentication mechanism to X which uses Ident (TAP, 
> > RFC-931 etc), to check that a user is permitted.  e.g. a server is given a 
> > list of allowed user/machine pairs by a program like xhost:
> > [which it checks using ident for incoming connections...]
>
> This pretty much reduces down to the same problem that xhost has.  I have
> several program that will fake my ident ID to be whatever I want it to be.

Why bother? I hear there is this real hot cracker program called "su".

Proff