multiuser X [Re: empty charset registry?]

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an tri? l? d?ag de m? na Samhain, scr?obh Ilya N. Golubev: 

 > > fonts.alias file to it with such a mapping, and adding that directory to
 > > your font path with xset fp+ ? 
 > 
 > This again assumes personal computer (that is, totally controlled by
 > single person).  Random x server does not have to allow arbitrary
 > `xset fp+',

Which random X server does not? 

 > and dedicated x server may not have user accessible file system at all. 
 >
 > (Call such a servers legacy if you like.)
 >
 > Or consider a quite modern machine with display(s) of its own, but
 > again used by multiple users.  X servers on these displays are run by
 > `root' (or other special user, as opposed to regular user accounts
 > running x clients).  Some font data are (or may be) Turing- powerful
 > programs (postscript).  This is a strong (security) reason to set up
 > these servers to refuse `xset fp+' for any directory outside a list
 > explicitly specified by administrator.  That is, currently have not an
 > instance of such a server readily at hand.  OTOH, if faced it, would
 > not be surprised.  Neither would object to that policy of its
 > administrator.

Sure, but that?s a pure hypothetical. Certain versions of AbiWord and Java,
for example, require that you modify the font path to run. 

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