Then i think it must have been a misconfigured version of X-Windows SSH. I apologize. (But I still trust what i`ve seen with the guy`s next office - and we had SSH set up all over the department... I cannot tell, however, wether it was a backdoor, as Unix is not my responsibility and therefore I have not too much interest... I also think that I need to show this to the unix guys, but for my part I could as well say I have a prejudice against X - lets stop the discussion about X and get back to the GUI...)
Anyway, I would strongly prefer the Java or TCL approach. A nice feature would be to have multiple servers that all get the same update in a single session, so you don`t have to connect them all and change the conf... Or keeping a local copy of the conf`s in a database, so you can change them and let all the config changes be sheduled to take place during late hours or 4am sunday... Would also make it easier to set up a box after a diskcrash again... (we are currently playing with the settings of some machines, because management wants this bit that way, and that bit this way - etc. You probably know the song) and 3 times a week ? well, i`ve changed the settings of the WinNT Apache we use in my department 5 times this week already, always on demand by some guy who just NEEDs this feature. I slowly see a change from order deny, allow to allow all in here :-) SK ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 4 14:14 MET 1998 Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 08:16:35 -0400 From: Chris Wertman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone try ACE? Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I use X on Win 95/NT all the time .....One Version is free , the Other SuperX is not , I use SuperX , greatest favor you can do for your Windowz Box, I would use an X basd Config tool , especially as seldom as it would be used (3 times a week max) , But on the GUI side of things why not some kinda Cross Platform GUI , I know there are CrossPlatform Tk's out there , whats wrong with TCL or Java...? So it dosent matter what GUI they are Using X, Mac, Windowz, etc...........When you say "a bit" have you EVER seen anyone comprimise X while running Under SSH ???, I have not . And depending on how you set up SSH I would be hard pressed to belive it possible if properly configured. Chris Wertman Stefan K�rner wrote: > ----- Begin Included Message ----- > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 4 12:35 MET 1998 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:35:20 +0200 (MET DST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Anyone try ACE? > X-Url: http://www.pvv.org/~borud/ > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by sonne.darmstadt.gmd.de > id MAA06462 > > [Stefan "K�rner"] > | > | X-Windows is a very bad idea for security reasons. > > it can be remedied a bit if you use ssh. > > -Bj�rn > > ----- End Included Message ----- > > a bit, you said it... > I`m still not satisfied with it - and hey, what about platforms : > I can see no x-Windows on the Mac/WinNT/Win9x side... > So it would be a platform specific solution again.... > > Stefan Koerner > (Using NT4, Suse 5.2 and Solaris 2.4 at this place) > ----- End Included Message -----
