Subject: Re: Weekly BSD Security Digest 2000/07/10 to 2000/07/16
To: None <lukem@cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 07/26/2000 11:37:13
At 01:20 26/07/00 , Luke Mewburn wrote:

>Except where NetBSD boxes are used as central login servers and you have
>X-terminals xdm-ing off them...

These exist, but they are uncommon enough (as a % of installed base)
that folks doing that could reasonably be expected to reconfigure
their X11 installation to enable that capability. 

>But as people mentioned earlier, just disable the remote login support
>in the xdm Xaccess config file if you don't need X-terminal support...

I'd say that this ought to be disabled in the default shipping
configuration.  Maybe there could be a README.netbsd file in the
/usr/X11/ directory with notes on how the NetBSD defaults might
vary from XFree86 defaults and where the config files/knobs exist ?

Ran
rja@inet.org