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Re: MicroImages MIX X Server
From: strombrg () NIS ACS UCI EDU (Dan Stromberg)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:21:18 -0700
Rich Lafferty wrote:
Quoting H D Moore (secureaustin () CONSULTANT COM) from Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:50:28PM -0500:The last version of MIX X Server I used did not have any authentication to speak of (so xhost, xauth, etc). It not only crashed when I sent garbage to it's tcp port, but tended to randomly crash the X applications running on them. Just my .02 --That must have been a while ago. Both the Windows and MacOS versions of MI/X from 1997 have host-based authentication. -Rich
If so, their FAQ needs to be updated: 35.Q: Does MI/X support xauth, or is there some other means of limiting what users can use it or what applications they can open? A: No.
Current thread:
- Re: MicroImages MIX X Server, (continued)
- Re: MicroImages MIX X Server Rich Lafferty (Oct 05)
- Omni-NFS/X Enterprise (nfsd.exe) DOS S.Faust (Oct 06)
- Re: Omni-NFS/X Enterprise (nfsd.exe) DOS H D Moore (Oct 06)
- Re: Omni-NFS/X Enterprise (nfsd.exe) DOS Mikael Olsson (Oct 07)
- Win95/98 and Novell client DoS Bruce Dennison (Oct 08)
- Re: Win95/98 and Novell client DoS Gyorgy Camaszotisz, Novell DevNet SysOp 13 (Oct 08)
- Re: Win95/98 and Novell client DoS Mike Richichi (Oct 08)
- Re: Win95/98 and Novell client DoS Richard Reiner (Oct 08)
- Re: MicroImages MIX X Server H D Moore (Oct 06)
- Re: MicroImages MIX X Server Rich Lafferty (Oct 08)
- Re: MicroImages MIX X Server Dan Stromberg (Oct 11)