Re: MicroImages MIX X Server

From: Rich Lafferty (richat_private)
Date: Fri Oct 08 1999 - 19:17:29 PDT

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Quoting H D Moore (secureaustinat_private) from Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 12:50:28PM -0500:
> The last version of MIX X Server I used did not have any authentication
> to speak of (so xhost, xauth, etc).  It not only crashed when I sent
> garbage to it's tcp port, but tended to randomly crash the X
> applications running on them.   Just my .02 --

That must have been a while ago. Both the Windows and MacOS versions of
MI/X from 1997 have host-based authentication.

  -Rich

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