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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: X security hole- how to fix?
Date: 28 Sep 1996 19:21:47 GMT
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tom@oliverdesign.com (Thomas B. Fox) wrote:

>   I noticed that no
> matter who I login as on the bsd machine when I start an xterm to
> another machine (such as my 95 machine) that xterm has root 
> access.

You must have screwed something.  But you didn't tell us what.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)