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  1. Bug #276357
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 276357

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 276357] Re: disable xauth for local users

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:20:31AM -0000, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> well, a saner way would probably be to just add the "new" host to the
> xauthority file instead of dropping all security checking
>

Right, but if the security checkings have no use, then we should drop
them for localusers. If there is a use we should get a fix for this
upstream.

redhat appears to be convinced that there is no reason for this
security for local users. do we have reason to believe that thats
wrong?

 - Alexander