Le lundi 04 octobre 2004 à 14:33 -0500, Kenny Hitt a écrit : > I guess we will have to disagree. For a system that supports many > users, it is a major security risk. If you are the only user of the > system, maybe you should just do everything as root and boot to single > user mode. If it is for posting such moot arguments, you'd better stop this discussion at once. This feature allows any user *who is physically logged on the machine* through GDM to shut it down. Any such user has the power to shut it down anyway, using e.g. the nifty gadget called a power switch. And if you're trying to prevent all kinds of denial of service from logged-on users, you'll have to purge more than a single package from your systems. > I consider it an important bug, not a wishlist problem. Until it gets > fixed, I've purged gdm from my systems. I agree this is an important bug, but not mandating a removal of gdm from all systems. And before saying GDM isn't safe, you shouldn't forget that alternatives based on XDM shouldn't be considered safer than a sheet of paper in the line of sight of a Gatling. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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