Re: Eek! X won't go away!
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500):
> > I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to
> > 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-)
>
> well, do consider a console login and a 'startx', xlock running and
> you out on lunch break, while i come into your office, hit
> ctrl-alt-del, and scp all your confidential docs to me so that i can
> then exploit all this knowledge... sure you'd find out, but then it's
> too late.
>
> so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config!
Points to consider:
1. Running xlock after you have started X from the console is silly,
insecure, and useless.
2. It's Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, not Ctrl-Alt-Del. And as I understand it,
Debian defaults to NoZap, so it wouldn't work anyway.
3. If someone really was stupid enough to start X from the console and
then assume that xlock would work for them, all one would really need to
do is Ctrl-Alt-F(1-6), then Ctrl-C. There's no stopping that, aside
from simply just not relying on xlock when you have logged in from
the console. Stopping X and logging out isn't really all that hard.
-Rob
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