Security design flaw with "default" x-windows login behaviour

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:35:15PM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> Anything that's related to a login is security related, even if it's not
> serious (& this certainly isn't).

I have to disagree here; security vulnerabilities and exposures are a
high-priority type of bug, which are dealt with through a special process
due to their impact on users.

It is important to make a distinction between a genuine security issue, and
a simple bug in a software package which happens to be related to the
security of the system.  A simple functionality or usability bug in a
security-related program does not imply a security problem.

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 - mdz