Fwd: The importance of mutual authentication: Local Privilege Escalation in X11

[Keith Packard]

Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> writes:

> Wouldn't this make it impossible to run processes under different users
> by using xauth and export DISPLAY=:0 ?

As long as the other user has access to the specified path, processes
will be able to connect to the server.

-- 
-keith
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