Re: at-poke is user sensitive

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi George,

> When I run gnome-hello (:pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome)
> I see it listed by at-poke; however, if I "xhost +", su to a different
> user in an xterm, and run gnome-hello, then I don't see it listed by
> at-poke.
>
> Why does at-poke (or GAP) care which user is running the application?  

Why should you have permission to see things that another user is running? 
That would be a security violation.

You tried this on a single-user desktop system.  But what about a thin client 
situation (e.g. SunRay) where you have multiple users running on the same system?


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team