On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:45, Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
the easy workaround for this is to run startx as "exec startx" so that when X dies/is killed, the login prompt is all that comes back. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
