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Re: Citrix Winframe client for Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keresztfalvi Gabor)
Mon May 31 16:47:44 1999

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Date: 	Sat, 29 May 1999 11:53:27 +0200
Reply-To: Keresztfalvi Gabor <kg230@HSZK.BME.HU>
From: Keresztfalvi Gabor <kg230@HSZK.BME.HU>
X-To:         David Terrell <dbt@MEAT.NET>
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On Fri, 28 May 1999, David Terrell wrote:
> The Citrix Winframe linux client (used for accessing Winframe and
> Windows NT Server Terminal Edition) has a simple configuration section.
> Perhaps too simple....  All configuration information is stored in a
> directory /usr/lib/ICAClient/config which is mode 777.  This in and
> of itself is bad news, since any user on the system can overwrite
> configuration data.
[snip]
> When you start up the actual session manager (wfcmgr) you get a listbox
> of configured sessions.  The data for this listbox is stored in the mode
> 777 file /usr/lib/ICAClient/config/appsrv.ini.  So  there's a single
> config file shared between all users.  A sample session profile follows:

I checked it both on Citrix ICA Client for Linux version 2.8.1 and 3.0.15.
Your report is true for 2.8.1, but all of the bugs are already fixed in
3.0.15. So /usr/lib/ICAClient/config is 555 now, and every user has own config
files in ~/.ICAClient.
The version 3.0.15 appeared on 1/18/99.

Greets,
Keresztg

+ Keresztfalvi Gabor
+ Student of the Technical University of Budapest
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