From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Thu 11 Jul 2002 - 01:27:34 IST
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, kevin lyda wrote:
> xhost should be avoided because it's host based "security."
not true. despite the name, xhost can be a frontend for many
different security mech's - see Xsecurity, Secure RPC or Krb5.
shame most of the secure mech's arent implemented. (due i guess to
the vendor infighting and positioning.) though, i /think/ XFree
supports kerberosV5 (it has some code anyway), dont know of anyone
using it or of any dists that even supply X with it compiled in.
imagine:
xhost +kevin at domain ie.suberic.net
:)
X: amazingly foresighted design...
regards,
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