On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Michael M. Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just thought, since most distros seem to use one by default, it must > do Something Important. But I don't know what that might be. >
My understanding is that it is a security-related. I can't test this at the moment, but I think you can kill X with the 3-finger salute (ctrl-alt-bksp) even when a screen locker is running. If you're using a login manager that launches X directly, then killing X just puts you at a login prompt. However, if you're launching X from a logged-in shell, then killing X puts you at the current user's command prompt. Now, if you give someone you don't trust physical access to your machine, they can wreak all kinds of havok, anyway, but it takes substantially less time to do so if they can get directly to a prompt with one keystroke. Granted, that may still not be a huge concern -- it all depends on your useage. --Rogan > Michael M. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_display_manager > [2] http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_07_03.html > [3] http://slim.berlios.de/ > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
