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<sitepolicy> lines are currently ignored. They are intended to specify the site policies used by the XC-
QUERY-SECURITY-1 authorization method.
<access rule> lines specify how the server should react to untrusted client requests that affect the X
Window property named <property/ar>. The rest of this section describes the interpretation of an access
rule.
For an <access rule> to apply to a given instance of <property/ar>, <property/ar> must be on a
window that is in the set of windows specified by <window>. If <window> is any, the rule applies to
<property/ar> on any window. If <window> is root, the rule applies to <property/ar> only on root
windows.
If <window> is required property, the following apply. If required property is a <property/rp>, the rule
applies when the <window> also has that <property/rp>, regardless of its value. If required property is
a <property with value>, <property/rpv > must also have the value specified by <string/rv>. In this
case, the property must have type STRING and format 8, and should contain one or more null-terminated
strings. If any of the strings match <string/rv>, the rule applies.
The definition of string matching is simple case-sensitive string comparison with one elaboration: the
occurence of the character '*' in <string/rv> is a wildcard meaning "any string." A <string/rv> can
contain multiple wildcards anywhere in the string. For example, "x*" matches strings that begin with x,
"*x" matches strings that end with x, "*x*" matches strings containing x, and "x*y*" matches strings
that start with x and subsequently contain y.
There may be multiple <access rule> lines for a given <property/ar>. The rules are tested in the order
that they appear in the file. The first rule that applies is used.
<perms> specify operations that untrusted clients may attempt, and the actions that the server should
take in response to those operations.
<operation> can be r (read), w (write), or d (delete). The following table shows how X Protocol
property requests map to these operations in The Open Group server implementation.
GetProperty r, or r and d if delete=True
ChangeProperty w
RotateProperties r and w
DeleteProperty d
ListProperties none, untrusted clients can always list all properties
<action> can be "a" (allow), "i" (ignore), or "e" (error). "Allow" means execute the request as if it had
been issued by a trusted client. "Ignore" means treat the request as a no-op. In the case of GetProperty,
ignore means return an empty property value if the property exists, regardless of its actual value. "Error"
means do not execute the request and return a BadAtom error with the atom set to the property name.
Error is the default action for all properties, including those not listed in the security policy file.
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