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Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience



On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 02:19:46PM +0000, Brian wrote:
>    Ctrl+Alt+F1...F12
>         For systems with virtual terminal support, these keystroke
>         combinations are used to switch to virtual terminals 1
>         through 12, respectively. This can be disabled with the
>         DontVTSwitch xorg.conf(5) file  option.

I doubt that stops e.g. chvt(1) from working. I'm sure there are a
myriad other ways to switch VT from within the X session, too.


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