This was merely a controlled experiment; I was curious at to what it would do (In otherwards, I asked for the ability to be able to access the remote display.) This brought forth realization that xkill, in application, behaves nothing like kill. Thank you all for the input, it was most helpful. -----Original Message----- From: Michel Arboi [mailto:arboiat_private] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:09 AM To: anthony gruppuso Cc: Bugtraqat_private; vuln-devat_private Subject: RE: Problem with xkill --- anthony gruppuso <agruppusat_private> a icrit : > I understand that, we use a very strict host access control list here > on all Xserver based devices/products Obviously not, as you could connect to another display. > I just thought it was interesting that xkill behaved in that manner. > Initally I was under the impression that it would function like a > graphical kill, but apparently that is not the case. I'm not sure what you call "graphical kill", but once the connection tp the X server is cut, there is nothing than the client can do, apart from saving its data and exiting nicely. Most client just die on SIGPIPE. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en frangais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
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