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minor X thing

I've heard of an interesting X issue: with setuid X (and it turns out,
with the debian wrapper as well, but only if the user could run X
anyway as permitted by the second line of /etc/X11/Xserver) if you
run "X -config /etc/shadow" it will print the first line of
/etc/shadow in the error message; this is *often* the entry for root,
giving the attacker something they can run crack on.  Not a major
problem, but it does defeat much of the use of shadow passwords...

This is mostly a "heads up", I'll probably fix it in some release soon
by either disabling -config for non-root users (the same way
 -showconfig is done -- pass it through, but *drop* privileges first)
or checking access on the file (though there's a race condition in
doing the latter, so the former is probably the right answer.)

Example follows.
			_Mark_ <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
			The Herd of Kittens
			Debian X Maintainer

% cat /etc/shadow
cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
Exit 1
% X -config /etc/shadow

Unrecognized option: root:<elided-for-email>:9952:0:99999:7:::
(lots of other usage messages follow)


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