Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience
On Fri 21 Mar 2014 at 12:37:57 -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
> I think it depends on the situation. If you're at the library with your
> laptop and need to go to the bathroom, it's best to take the computer
> with you, because it's easier to just walk off with it than to dink
> with the command prompt. I have my office in my home, where I trust
> everyone who goes in my office, so startx is fine.
Easier? Dinking? Don't be silly.
> But if I were working in a cube farm with a desktop, where hundreds of
> people walk by my computer every day, and in fact some might actually
> have business being on my computer, disabling a 5 second route to a
> command prompt logged in as me would be a very good thing.
So you do not have the default tty_tickets setting as "off". Your
account; your responsibility. What's the problem?
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