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SecurityPolicy
- TO: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: SecurityPolicy
- From: j dot j dot ita at siep dot shell dot com
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:37:56 +0100
Right your are Suhaib. It is just a warning. Out of curiosity, is this
something that should be added to the tar suite for secure use of the
Xserver? I freely admit I have not went to the references given in the
web page to find out myself. I was hoping to save time by getting your
expert opinion first.
Joel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 1:27 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7
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> >
> > Lastly the question. On both machines I got the line:
> >
> > error opening security policy file
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> >
> > I did a tar -tvf | grep -i SecurityPolicy on all the tar
> > files from the
> > xfree/xc-4-binaries and could not find it. It is in the
> > binary tar ball
> > for the VNC based Xserver. Is this an oversight?
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> You can create your own, copy from a Linux box, or copy from
> VNC tar ball
> to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy.
>
> It just a warning, not an error.
>
> Suhaib
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> >
> > Joel
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Harold@compasstechnologies.com
> > > [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 12:39 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> > > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Offscreen and No DirectInput Test 7
> > >
> > >
> > > Changes:
> > > 1) Removed DDLOCK_NOSYSLOCK flag in call to
> > > IDirectDrawSurface_Lock; John
> > > Fortin said that flag doesn't exist in DirectX 3... I
> can't find the
> > > documentation to back that up, but I'll go with it. Testers
> > > with failures
> > > in IDirectDrawSurface_Lock() seem to all be running Windows
> > > NT 4.0 SP3+; so,
> > > John is probably right that the said flag is not supported in
> > > DirectX 3.
> > > Any Windows 98 testers out there please check in if the
> > > latest release works
> > > for you.
> > >
> > > Known Issues:
> > > 1) Don't move the window :)
> > >
> > > 2) Be careful when moving focus to and away from the window;
> > > the best bet
> > > is to minimize the window, rather than just clicking on
> another app
> > >
> > > 3) Not feature complete - the only goal of the current
> > > testing is to get an
> > > image from the X server to appear on every tester's machine
> > >
> > > Updates in this test release were constrained to xf_dx.dll,
> > so, if you
> > > already have the Test 3, or greater, full package
> > > (OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2) installed, you can just download
> > > the xf_dx.dll
> > > package; otherwise, download the full Test 7 package.
> > >
> > > Full Test 7 Package:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 (1.7 MB)
> > > Test 7 xf_dx.dll Package:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx.dll.tar.bz2 (43 kB)
> > >
> > >
> > > Sources:
> > > You can download the xf_dx.dll test 7 source if you have
> > > Visual C++ 6 and
> > > you feel like poking around:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xf_dx-src.zip (14 kB)
> > >
> > >
> > > Screenshots, 1024x768:
> > > 1) A local xterm:
> > > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-xterm.pn
> > g (160 kB)
> >
> > 2) Remote gftp running on a GNU/Linux host with Gnome installed:
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/CygwinXFree86-ScreenShot-gftp.png
> (153 kB)
>
> Good luck, enjoy, and thanks for testing,
>
> Harold
>