Securing the interactions between X clients.
Prem Uppuluri, Vivek Diwakara, Alok Tongaonkar, Vikas Rajegowda, Acme Packet · 2009
The security of Xwindows is usually divided into authentication/authorization of connections, and authorization of Xclient interactions [5]. The first issue has been well-addressed in research through mechanisms such as xhost and xauth 1 . In this paper we discuss the approaches to the last issue: one of authorization. We present a taxonomy of different approaches and discuss the effectiveness of a lightweight mechanism which we proposed.