100705 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra >> steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login >> on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start? > And what about this security risk: > 1. lock screen > 2. go away somewhere > 3. ivan the russian spammer walks by, presses ctrl-alt-f1 > 4. ivan the russian spammer presses ctrl-c > 5. ivan the russian spammer is now *you* > 6. god help you if you ran sudo in the last 5 minutes
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