on Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK (madduck@madduck.net) 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!
Um. How about:
$ startx <args>; exit
...from console. I've even written a bash function to do this sanely
from my laptop, posted here recently.
Yes, launching X from a console w/o securing (or exiting) the console
session is a security hole. However, securing or exiting the console
session is trivial.
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