In <listserv%201104121752081904.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 04/12/2011
at 05:52 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>It's more plausible that sites that like to consider themselves very
>secure prohibit running servers of whatever sort (even X11?) on
>desktops.
Why? And is it true for the sites that actually are very secure, as
opposed to the ones that only believe that they are?
>And here I don't know the WSA topology. Which side does listen()
>and which side does connect()?
ISPF connects to the WSA.
>From what the OP said, it appears that the workstation
>is the server.
Yes. However, as with an X server, one of its functions is to pass
keyboard input back to the client.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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