Not that I'm suggesting it, but wouldn't removing getty from consoles 1-6 fix approach 3.) below?
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Rob VanFleet wrote: > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
