On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:55:27PM +1000, Tom Massey wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:36:59PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > > What I meant as security hole... I wanted to say if that kdm autologin > > is a security hole exploitable remotely? > > No, it's only a problem if you have evil people who have physical access > to the machine so that they could reboot it and get logged in automatically. > I think this is so anyway. Maybe if you started a remote X session it would > be able to log you in, but I don't think it lets you do this. So no more a > security hole then having a floppy drive in the machine into which somebody > could stick a boot disk. Ok, I have no evil people at home, lol. But having physical access to the computer is like having full control, so I think I'll stick with this autologin for some time (until I get bored of it). Thanks for your help. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- FreeBSD is the power-- Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> ICQ: 18961975
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