OMG...stop the flood of emails!!! hehe. What a ton of super-fast replies.
Everyone is suggesting reading the xauth man page. So I'm going to go and do
that. =)
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Williams" <jonathw_at_shubertorg.com>
To: <tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:39 PM
Subject: X cookies?
> We recently put ourselves through a system security audit. Their report came
> back with a few (dozen) suggestions on how we could do things a bit more
> securely. One of these things in particular I need help with.
>
> We make heavy use of X windows. They say "If there is a strong business need
> for X windows, ensure that X cookies (shared secret keys to do secure X) are
> used." Now, this means absolutely nothing to me. I've searched everywhere I
> can think of (including the security doc) for X cookies and things like that
and
> have found nothing. If anyone could shed some light on this, it would be
> wonderful (docs, websites, anything).
>
> Jonathan Williams
> Unix Systems Administrator
> The Shubert Organization, Inc.
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 12 2002 - 19:57:09 NZST