Re: Eek! X won't go away!
Not that I'm suggesting it, but wouldn't removing getty from consoles 1-6
fix approach 3.) below?
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Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
aperrin@socrates.berkeley.edu - aperrin@igc.apc.org
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote:
> 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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