Re: Xaccess question

[Dennis Davis <ccsdhd@bath.ac.uk>]

>From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr>
>Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:56:05 +0200 (MET DST)
>To: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh@nts.umn.edu>
>Cc: "OpenBSD Misc." <misc@openbsd.org>
>Subject: Re: Xaccess question
>
>You wrote (in your message from Thursday 1)
> > 
> > I noticed, however, that the default contents of the Xaccess file allows 
> > anyone to call up an X login from my xdm.  Urq.  I simply commented out 
> > the two offending lines, but it occurs to me that this might be unwanted 
> > default behavior.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
>I think I agree with you, and will change the default behaviour, if no
>one expresses opinions against it.

I'd agree with the above; I think the default should be changed.
It's one of the things I have to remember to do on a Solaris box.  I
comment out these lines in the file:

/usr/dt/config/Xaccess

to stop Solaris's dtlogin program responding to plaintive cries for
help from X-terminals.