Vulnerability Development mailing list archives
Re: Problem with xkill
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:09:15 -0500
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:54:03 EST, Anthony Gruppuso said:
I don't know what possesed me to try this, but under Digital UNIX 5.0, as a normal user, I was able to set my DISPLAY to the IP address of another user who was running a seperate session, and run xkill.
xkill (like any other X client) uses the standard X access control scheme. Most likely, the other user had done an 'xhost +' or 'xhost +yourhost'. That's why xauth and friends exist, to stop games like this... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
Attachment:
_bin
Description:
Current thread:
- Problem with xkill Anthony Gruppuso (Mar 22)
- Re: Problem with xkill xm (Mar 22)
- Re: Problem with xkill Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 22)
- Re: Problem with xkill Michel Arboi (Mar 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Problem with xkill anthony gruppuso (Mar 22)
- RE: Problem with xkill Ron DuFresne (Mar 22)
- Re: Problem with xkill KF (Mar 23)
- RE: Problem with xkill Michel Arboi (Mar 23)
- RE: Problem with xkill Ron DuFresne (Mar 22)
- RE: Problem with xkill Joe Gruppuso (Mar 25)
- RE: Problem with xkill Ron DuFresne (Mar 25)
- RE: Problem with xkill Sumit Dhar (Mar 26)
- RE: Problem with xkill Ron DuFresne (Mar 25)