RE: SecurityPolicy

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Yes, a template can be added in future.
Every site had its own SecurityPolicy, and I assume, if not
most, many users can create their own using a template.

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: j.j.ita@siep.shell.com [mailto:j.j.ita@siep.shell.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:38 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: SecurityPolicy
> 
> 
> Right your are Suhaib. It is just a warning. Out of 
> curiosity, is this 
> something that should be added to the tar suite for secure use of the 
> Xserver? I freely admit I have not went to the references 
> given in the 
> web page to find out myself. I was hoping to save time by 
> getting your 
> expert opinion first.
> 
> Joel
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 1:27 PM
> > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Lastly the question. On both machines I got the line:
> > > 
> > > error opening security policy file 
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> > > 
> > > I did a tar -tvf | grep -i SecurityPolicy on all the tar 
> > > files from the 
> > > xfree/xc-4-binaries and could not find it. It is in the 
> > > binary tar ball 
> > > for the VNC based Xserver. Is this an oversight? 
> > 
> > 
> > You can create your own, copy from a Linux box, or copy from 
> > VNC tar ball
> > to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy.
> > 
> > It just a warning, not an error.
> > 
> > Suhaib
> > 
> > > 
> > > Joel
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > > > [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 12:39 AM
> > > > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > > > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Changes:
> > > > 1)  Removed DDLOCK_NOSYSLOCK flag in call to 
> > > > IDirectDrawSurface_Lock; John
> > > > Fortin said that flag doesn't exist in DirectX 3... I 
> > can't find the
> > > > documentation to back that up, but I'll go with it.  Testers 
> > > > with failures
> > > > in IDirectDrawSurface_Lock() seem to all be running Windows 
> > > > NT 4.0 SP3+; so,
> > > > John is probably right that the said flag is not supported in 
> > > > DirectX 3.
> > > > Any Windows 98 testers out there please check in if the 
> > > > latest release works
> > > > for you.
> > > > 
> > > > Known Issues:
> > > > 1)  Don't move the window :)
> > > > 
> > > > 2)  Be careful when moving focus to and away from the window; 
> > > > the best bet
> > > > is to minimize the window, rather than just clicking on 
> > another app
> > > > 
> > > > 3)  Not feature complete - the only goal of the current 
> > > > testing is to get an
> > > > image from the X server to appear on every tester's machine
> > > > 
> > > > Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll, 
> > > so, if you
> > > > already have the Test 3, or greater, full package
> > > > (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed, you can just download 
> > > > the xf_dx.dll
> > > > package; otherwise, download the full Test 7 package.
> > > > 
> > > > Full Test 7 Package:
> > > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
> > > > Test 7 xf_dx.dll Package:
> > > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43 kB)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Sources:
> > > > You can download the xf_dx.dll test 7 source if you have 
> > > > Visual C++ 6 and
> > > > you feel like poking around:
> > > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Screenshots, 1024x768:
> > > > 1)  A local xterm:
> > > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-xterm.pn
> > > g (160 kB)
> > > 
> > > 2)  Remote gftp running on a GNU/Linux host with Gnome installed:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-gftp.png
> >  (153 kB)
> > 
> > Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,
> > 
> > Harold
> > 
>