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Re: How to Listen to audio CD's painlessly via CDPlayer.app

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 04:32
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jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory) writes:
> 2. Open Preferences.  To the right, click on the UNIX certificate icon.
>    Under "Security Options" turn on "Public Window Server".  This is a
>    security weakness, and I don't understand how severe.  However, I am
>    a standalone site,  [...etc...]

For people who are not a standalone site (ie, if your NeXT is on the  
internet), this is a significant security hazard.  In my own opinion, it is  
not a good idea to do if your NeXT is on the internet.  It is no problem to  
do if your host is standalone, as JG's is.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA
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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: How to Listen to audio CD's painlessly via CDPlayer.app
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