Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 09:24:21 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> 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.
In an xterm (with or without using DontVTSwitch):
brian@localhost:~$ chvt 4
Couldn't gat a file descriptor referring to the console
Doubt no longer. :)
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