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Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security



On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Kousik Maiti wrote:

Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:04 +0530
From: Kousik Maiti <kousikster@gmail.com>
To: Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem with Debian 4.0 security

Are you login as root user?? From root you can't use lock screen facility.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:

Hello.

I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer.

The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working.

The facility Applications -> Debian -> Screen -> Lock -> KTux, raises a
screensaver, but that screen can simply be closed, by clicking on the cross
in the top right corner of the window, and does not require a login, to
unlock the screen.

The facility Desktop -> Logout -> Switch User, goes to a login screen, but
then, when the screen is turned off, and, turned back on, some hours later,
the display is returned to how it was before using that facility, without
the login scren appearing, and, without logging in.

As, in these circumstances, the computer can apparently, only be secured,
by shutting it down, a security issue appears apparent.

As the above facilities for locking the screen, do not work properly, is
there any other reliable way to lock the screen, without losing the log in
session?

Thank you in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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No.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
  A Trilogy In Four Parts",
  written by Douglas Adams,
  published by Pan Books, 1992

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