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icedchai 71 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

Some versions of IRIX (4.x, maybe?) also defaulted to having X11 authentication disabled. Anyone in the office could "xmelt" your screen... or worse.

nyrikki 70 days ago [–]

Oracle EBS required root X11 authentication be disabled to use the compositor for PDF generation even 10 years later so still pretty common.

Oracle threatened to not support us when I used an unprivileged Xvfb instqance instead.

Still stupid but not that uncommon back then.

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