On 12/27/05, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: > > > by KDE are root-owned and world rw. There is also a problem with the socket > > /tmp/.X11-unix/X0. This is documented on the web and even in an OpenBSD > > presentation on XFree86 from about 2002. > > Dunno about KDE but can you elaborate or give refs why having a world > writable unix domain socket is considered a problem?
this is obviously a source of confusion. the permissions on a socket mean *nothing*. anyone can open any socket regardless of permissions, so long as they have necessary directory permissions to find it.
