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Re: Possible flaw in XFree?


From: "William N. Zanatta" <william () veritel com br>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:34:01 -0300

  Firstly, thank you for the answers. But...

You have explained how to start X without letting my console opened and that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is a feature. I already know that. The problem I see is: once the X session is locked, it is suposed to LOCK the system and don't let anyone just press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and take it down. Also it shouldn't let people switch to console by Ctrl-Alt-Fx. If it can't have such behavior, using xlock and stuffs like that isn't justified.

Got it?? I'm not discussing on whether to run X by xdm, or by console, or even disabling 'DontZap'. I'm talking about one doing things when it shouldn't.

  william

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