Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!jvkelley
From: jvkelley@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jeff Kelley)
Newsgroups: uw.cgl,uw.mfcf.people
Subject: Re: X Window system has no security
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:36:18 GMT
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Reply-To: jvkelley@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jeff Kelley)
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The lack of security is a property of current X server implementations.
The X protocol requires clients to send an access control string
to the server as they attempt to establish a connection.
The MIT R3 server simply ignores the string, and the MIT R3 X library
sends a null string.  Presumably, though, one could use it to distinguish
between 'trusted' clients and 'hostile' clients. 

But then it would be harder to have a multi-player game of 'xconq',
now, wouldn't it?

-Jeff