Michael says X
needs stronger,
hostname-independent, authentication.
xhost +SI:localuser:foo:
daniels@ephemera:~% xhost +SI:localuser:nobody
localuser:nobody being added to access control list
daniels@ephemera:~% sudo -u nobody xdpyinfo
name of display: :0.0
version number: 11.0
vendor string: The X.Org Foundation
[...]
This was all part of the ServerInterpreted auth scheme, which I think Sun did
the work on. So you're free to concoct arbitrary schemes involving SELinux,
and just implement them in the server you're intersted in.
Corey writes that he's glad
GNOME
gets it, based on Jono Bacon's O'Reilly article on how Linux sound
applications
need
simplicity. Corey, if you want to contact Jono to chat about his
observations some more, you can email him: jono@kde.org.
This is a public service announcement. If you have a mail server, and it is
going to stay down for a month, and you have someone else
forwarding mail for your entire domain -- to the tune of 15,000 mails a
week -- for you, why don't you let them know? That way their machine doesn't
fall over and die every time Postfix tries to look at the queue.
Mail isn't working out, so hopefully they read this. David Turner, please
fix the onward relay host for freetype.org. PLEASE!