Re: [Xen-users] Security Violation?

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On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:21:32AM +0000, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:16:02AM +0200, Frederic Stumpf wrote:
> 
> > >  Probably what is happening is that you have Firefox running in dom0
> > > already - so when you run the *new* firefox in domU it doesn't actually
> > > start a new process and export the display, instead it connects to
> > > your already-running instance and just creates a new window.
> > 
> > I don't think that this is the issue, since there is a strong isolation 
> > between the processes running inside the VM and Dom0.
> 
>   Try it with two random non-Xen hosts.  The same thing happens.
> 
>   1.  Run firefox on the local host.
> 
>   2.  Run "ssh -X  remote.host firefox"
> 
>   3.  Notice a new window.  Notice that it is a new window belonging
>     to the *local* firefox.  (You can tell by things like bookmarks/
>     start page/whatever.)
> 
> > It is a curiose problem I never encountered.
> 
>   This is not a Xen-specific problem, but an issue with firefox which
>  suprises people often.  Mozilla behaves the same way.
> 
>   Testing this is easy if you have two hosts with firefox/mozilla
>  installed.
> 
> Steve
> -- 

Steve, you're right. Firefox has the same affect on non xen hosts, which is 
very surprising. I've no idea how firefox manages to do this.

rgds,
Paul

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