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- From: giordano@tamaro.cscs.ch (Silvia Giordano)
- Subject: X Window Security
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.124558.24089@cscs.ch>
- Sender: giordano@tamaro (Silvia Giordano)
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- Organization: Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico / CH-6928 Manno
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:45:58 GMT
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- Hello folks.
- I would like to get your opinions and experiences about X Window
- traffic. We are receiving many requests to open X Window traffic in
- unrestricted way. The opinion of the Network&Security group at
- our Supercomputer Centre is that this represents a definite security
- hole since X Window is not considered to be a safe product (e.g. use
- of not privileged TCP ports, weak X11R4 security design and so on).
-
- Could someone give me more info on X Window System security? I read the
- tutorial by Dennis Sheldrick and explained the above well enough for me,
- but I don't know any X installation filtering X access for security.
- Isn't there an X-Window technical conference on security topic?
- Isn't there anyone having experiences with X Window System security?
- What is the policy implemented at your centre? Did you have negative
- experiences with unrestricted X Window traffic?
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- Thanks for any answer.
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- Best Regards.
-
- Silvia Giordano
- Network Coordinator
- Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico
- Via Cantonale CH-6928 Manno (Switzerland)
- Tel: +41 91 508213 FAX: +41 91 506711
- E-Mail: giordano@cscs.ch
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