[Info-vax] X-terminals again

Wilm Boerhout w6.boerhout at planet.nl
Wed Jan 14 15:46:31 EST 2009


Bill Gunshannon vaguely mentioned on 14-1-2009 21:37:

> 
> If you can't trust your own users, you have more serious problems than
> you might get from XDM.  And you can keep your XDM local eliminating
> any fears of outsiders getting at it.  I have run XDM for years and
> that has never been the vector for an attack. 

Ah, but you don't know, because login failures are not logged by VMS. 
Intrusion detection is not active. Password guessing is possible.


And, no, it is not
> available anywhere but locally.  And I know I can't trust my users.

My sentiments exactly. My systems run much cleaner without the users.

/Wilm



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