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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: startkde
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-11 20:26:25
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On Monday 11 March 2002 06:27 am, Hans Meine wrote:
> Ooops, really? And I always wondered how it was supposed to work.. At
> our university, we constantly got problems with .ICE-unix
> KDE-"denial-of-services". We/They run Solaris btw. However, I thought
> this was KDE-ICE stuff and independant from the X version??

We use KDE-ICE for dcopserver and libICE for ksmserver. libICE usualy comes 
with your X server although it has strictly-speaking nothing to do with X. 
libICE (as well as DCOP) works perfectly well without a X-server in sight.

I have heared reports from Solaris users that their libICE creates 
/tmp/.ICE-unix with wrong permissions. There seems to be a service-pack that 
fixes that. You can fix it yourself by (re)creating /tmp/.ICE-unix as root 
during boot and setting the permissions to "drwxrwxrwt".

That still leaves you vulnerable for accidental and deliberate DOS in the way 
that I described in my original mail though.

Cheers,
Waldo
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