Security question?

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Nov 3 14:22:47 PST 2004


On Wednesday 03 November 2004 17:12, Thomas Hellström wrote:
> Hmm,
> Doesn't any connection based approach fail with proxy X servers like
> ssh, where the shm approach will work?

True.  Good point.  How does MIT-SHM deal with this?  I suspect it's by only 
treating PF_UNIX connections as local, which seems to me an entirely 
reasonable compromise.

- ajax
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