[17906] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.29: X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Jun 14 00:19:27 2000
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 14 Jun 2000 00:19:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:08:20 -0400 (EDT)"
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John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I suspect it would be adequate to use a .Xauthority file
> with a bogus entry for an unsupported authorization method.
In terms of what? Preventing remote attacks that relied on spoofing?
I certainly don't see how that could help with Brad's original problem.
(Greg's suggestion to take advantage of /dev/random where applicable
would, though.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
