On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 20:24, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > Found this issue and tried it twice tonight on two different > > machines. > > > > With xscreensaver locked and waiting for your password, I walk up and > > hit Alt-Ctrl-Backspace. It kills X and drops me into the console as you. > > At this point I have your account. > > > > I guess this is an XFree issue? Is there a way to configure XFree to > > not do this? Or is this an xscreensaver issue. Should it trap the key > > sequence and do nothing? > > > > Is this a known bug? It seems quite dangerous to me. > > From 'man XF86Config': > > Option "DontZap" "boolean" > This disallows the use of the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace sequence. That sequence is > normally > used to terminate the X server. When this option is enabled, that key sequence > has no > special meaning and is passed to clients. Default: off.
OK, so that seems to work. Thanks. Personally I think that this option should be on by default, but at least now I know. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
