On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 12:23:29PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> XDMCP is comparable to NFS in terms of security. ;-)
if you use settle for using xhost security it is, yes. however, the
Xauthority mechanism is a whole lot more general than that.
(from my XFree86 3.3.6 Xsecurity(3x) manpage)
NAME
Xsecurity - X display access control
SYNOPSIS
X provides mechanism for implementing many access control
systems. The sample implementation includes five mecha-
nisms:
Host Access Simple host-based access control.
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Shared plain-text "cookies".
XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 Secure DES based private-keys.
SUN-DES-1 Based on Sun's secure rpc system.
MIT-KERBEROS-5 Kerberos Version 5 user-to-user.
i presume its not too hard to add another authentication method, if
you have a particular desire to use the new authentication-abstraction-
library-of-the-day.
the rest of Xsecurity(3x) gives lengthy descriptions on each mechanism
and how to use them.
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