[11449] in bugtraq
Re: XDM Insecurity revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Leitner)
Fri Aug 20 23:47:13 1999
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:29:16 +0200
Reply-To: Thomas Leitner <tom@RADAR.TU-GRAZ.AC.AT>
From: Thomas Leitner <tom@RADAR.TU-GRAZ.AC.AT>
X-To: Jochen Bauer <jtb@THEO2.PHYSIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: <19990818122620.A16339@luna.theo2.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Jochen Bauer wrote:
> However, this warning seemed to have little effect as (at least)
> Digital Unix 4.0E, SuSE Linux 6.1 and Red Hat Linux 6.0 are still
Digital Unix 4.0x with C2 security enabled, does not have this problem.
You get a "Cannot obtain database information on this terminal" message
box when trying to login from an X server which is not authorized in
the /etc/auth/system/ttys database.
Tom
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