Re: [TCLUG:9550] Security Tidbit

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

Generally xdm is used on most systems.  

A) startx is depricated by the X people. (read that in some docs
somewhere, that they are not going to support/update startx if it somehow
becomes obselete, it would get upgraded anyhow but xdm is perferred)

B) xdm/wdm/gdm/etc.. are usually very decent and are more secure than
startx.

Most public access machines I have seen force xdm.  Console access on a
linux box to run x should be disallowed for exactly the same reasons you
said (zap gives a shell. etc).

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