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Diffstat (limited to 'man/general/security.man')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/general/security.man b/man/general/security.man index 0859b02..a51e386 100644 --- a/man/general/security.man +++ b/man/general/security.man @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" from the X Consortium. .\" .\" -.\" $XFree86: xc/doc/man/general/security.man,v 1.4 2001/01/27 18:20:38 dawes Exp $ +.\" $XFree86: xc/doc/man/general/security.man,v 1.5 2003/07/09 15:27:25 tsi Exp $ .\" .nr )S 12 .TH XSECURITY __miscmansuffix__ __xorgversion__ @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ control is only as good as the access control to the physical network. In environments where network-level snooping is difficult, this system can work reasonably well. .IP "XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1" -Sites in the United States can use a DES-based access control +Sites who compile with DES support can use a DES-based access control mechanism called XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1. It is similar in usage to MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 in that a key is stored in the \fI.Xauthority\fP file and is shared with the X server. @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ random data used as the authenticator. .IP When connecting to the X server, the application generates 192 bits of data by combining the current time in seconds (since 00:00 1/1/1970 GMT) along -with 48 bits of "identifier". For TCP/IP connections, the identifier is +with 48 bits of "identifier". For TCP/IPv4 connections, the identifier is the address plus port number; for local connections it is the process ID and 32 bits to form a unique id (in case multiple connections to the same server are made from a single process). This 192 bit packet is then |