Re: at-poke is user sensitive
- From: Janina Sajka <janina freestandards org>
- To: George Kraft <gk4 austin ibm com>
- Cc: gnome-accessibility-list gnome org, Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>
- Subject: Re: at-poke is user sensitive
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:59:44 -0500
George Kraft writes:
> Hi Peter,
>
> > Why should you have permission to see things that another user is running?
> > That would be a security violation.
>
> The Xserver has already authenticated the application to be displayed.
> Why can't at-poke (or GAP) be able to see the application? Also, what
> if I were running applications from remote hosts to my local display?
>
Or, if I ran as a member of a group, e.g. I will sometimes su apache.
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