Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 10:24:54 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:52:03AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > 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. :)
>
> Try via sudo. (risk reduced to: X session left open, terminal left open,
> non-expired sudo ticket in that terminal)
Didn't think of that. You're correct, of course. Thanks for the
explanation.
> I'm still sure there will be many other ways to do it, although they may
> require privileges to do so.
I'm convinced.
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