xcrowbar/ident for x
Nathan Lawson (nlawson@statler.csc.calpoly.edu)
Wed, 11 Jan 1995 11:53:45 -0800 (PST)
> What's xcrowbar, and how does it "turn[] off the authority mechanisms
> altogether"? In my experience, only clients running on the local host,
> or the xdm host if the server was started with xdm, can fiddle with the
> access control mechanisms.
It's basically a C program that does the equivalent of "while (1) {
xhost +". It does have to be run on the local machine.
> In any case, yes, it's true that "xhost -" doesn't magically mean
> you're safe again.
Yes. Perhaps the ident info that you wished to log would come in handy when
wondering where that gif was coming from. :)
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