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| author | runge <runge> | 2007-05-05 18:28:32 +0000 |
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| committer | runge <runge> | 2007-05-05 18:28:32 +0000 |
| commit | 1d495291e434af3d8bb8d6ceaf5aa926dea065e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 333a569b60985693fafd68782115cf6288e03a39 /x11vnc/help.c | |
| parent | 76d88e31114b5cc0f66f90e76eb9c734bbc9bf4b (diff) | |
| download | libtdevnc-1d495291e434af3d8bb8d6ceaf5aa926dea065e9.tar.gz libtdevnc-1d495291e434af3d8bb8d6ceaf5aa926dea065e9.zip | |
filexfer warnings and messages.
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/x11vnc/help.c b/x11vnc/help.c index b465773..77ea6de 100644 --- a/x11vnc/help.c +++ b/x11vnc/help.c @@ -360,11 +360,27 @@ void print_help(int mode) { " per-client viewonly state the filetransfer permissions\n" " will NOT change.\n" "\n" +" IMPORTANT: please understand if -tightfilexfer is\n" +" specified and you run x11vnc as root for, say, inetd\n" +" or display manager (gdm, kdm, ...) access and you do\n" +" not have it switch users via the -users option, then\n" +" VNC Viewers that connect are able to do filetransfer\n" +" reads and writes as *root*.\n" +"\n" +" Also, tightfilexfer is disabled in -unixpw mode.\n" +"\n" "-ultrafilexfer Note: to enable UltraVNC filetransfer and to get it to\n" " work you probably need to supply these libvncserver\n" " options: \"-rfbversion 3.6 -permitfiletransfer\"\n" " \"-ultrafilexfer\" is an alias for this combination.\n" "\n" +" IMPORTANT: please understand if -ultrafilexfer is\n" +" specified and you run x11vnc as root for, say, inetd\n" +" or display manager (gdm, kdm, ...) access and you do\n" +" not have it switch users via the -users option, then\n" +" VNC Viewers that connect are able to do filetransfer\n" +" reads and writes as *root*.\n" +"\n" " Note that sadly you cannot do both -tightfilexfer and\n" " -ultrafilexfer at the same time because the latter\n" " requires setting the version to 3.6 and tightvnc will\n" @@ -1643,7 +1659,7 @@ void print_help(int mode) { " character. E.g. \"-users +bob\" or \"-users +nobody\".\n" "\n" " The latter (i.e. switching immediately to user\n" -" \"nobody\") is probably the only use of this option\n" +" \"nobody\") is the only obvious use of the -users option\n" " that increases security.\n" "\n" " Use the following notation to associate a group with\n" |