On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:55:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Glenn Becker (on Tue, 27 Feb 2001 04:14:48PM -0500): > > I don't really know what the purpose of xdm is. There are packages to > > 'prettify' it, but I just object to the whole thing. :-) > > well, do consider a console login and a 'startx', xlock running and > you out on lunch break, while i come into your office, hit > ctrl-alt-del, and scp all your confidential docs to me so that i can > then exploit all this knowledge... sure you'd find out, but then it's > too late. > > so if you dislike xdm, at least set NoZap in XF86Config!
Points to consider: 1. Running xlock after you have started X from the console is silly, insecure, and useless. 2. It's Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, not Ctrl-Alt-Del. And as I understand it, Debian defaults to NoZap, so it wouldn't work anyway. 3. If someone really was stupid enough to start X from the console and then assume that xlock would work for them, all one would really need to do is Ctrl-Alt-F(1-6), then Ctrl-C. There's no stopping that, aside from simply just not relying on xlock when you have logged in from the console. Stopping X and logging out isn't really all that hard. -Rob
