Re: X-windows security in Gnome

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> writes:

> Note that for a program segment to be secure, it just needs to call
> XSecurityAllocXauth and then XSecurityGenerateAuthorization
> on start.  Then on exit call XSecurityFreeXauth.  Things
> get more complicated if you have multiple secure programs and you
> want one of them to grant security privilidges to the other, but I
> can't think of an example of needing this in Gnome.

IMO, it would be safe to assume that 99% of people working on
X servers, don't understand XSecurity, so XSecurity has probably
bit-rotted on 99% of X servers.

As Jim says, if you want to be secure, secure your display.

Regards,
                                        Owen