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RE: errors when switching users (security hole?)
- From: "Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at csc dot mrc dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Alexander Gottwald" <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>,"Cygwin-Xfree" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 13:01:58 -0000
- Subject: RE: errors when switching users (security hole?)
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
>
> This is normal behaviour.
well, I doubt that you would get your xterm on somebody else's screen on
Linux, but I see what you mean.
By the way, would it be a good idea to abort startxwin.bat when it didn't
manage to remove .X11-unix? That way, at least the user could be warned
she's doing something wrong.
> eg. if the first server was started with XWin -options then the
> second should
> be started with XWin :1 -options
>
ok. I'll live with that. Thanks!
Kris