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


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