Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:24:21 +0000
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> 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.
Not only that, but I don't think a day goes by when I don't switch to a
VT to do CLI stuff, or even to kill X because X hung (not so much in
Debian, but in other distros).
I'd rather shut down the computer when I leave to go to the bathroom
than set it up so I couldn't Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get a CLI environment any
time I wanted.
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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