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Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?



On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 02:36:27PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> One must be aware of security hole which may be created by runing the
> display or xv from Xsetup_0 (it will run with root uid !).
> On my machine I use the xmessage for this purpose, which is much safer...
> (I hope :-).

As the text in question expicitly states, that unauthorized access is
forbidden, I think they are safe ;)

(Soryy, couldn't resist. BTW: You can start evry program you want from the
configuration file /etc/X11/xdm/???. You can even start a root shell, but
this makes xdm pointless ;)

Marcus
 
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