Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-25 Thread Joel Sing
On Saturday 24 March 2012, Brett wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]:

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-25 Thread Brett
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:39:41 +1100 Joel Sing j...@sing.id.au wrote: Or: $ startx lock -np -- Of the suggestions, I like this one the best - no need to generate an xorg.conf file, also when I press the power button on my desktop, shutdown will happen straight away, if I use exec

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-24 Thread Paul Stoeber
This is what I do on 5.0/i386. I have this line in /etc/ttys: ttyC5 /bin/Lock vt220 on secure To lock the computer I run this executable /bin/Lock: #!/bin/sh pass=sparken exe=/bin/Lock fifo=/var/Lock case $1 in ttyC*) t=/dev/$1 tty=$t exec $exe exe $t $t 2 $t ;; exe);; *)

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-24 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:35:53PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2012, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server increasing security again? By stopping

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-24 Thread ropers
On 24 March 2012 15:56, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: Option DontZap on Option DontVTSwitch on Option DontZoom on Was what I used with some success to keep people out of the console on some internet kiosk devices. Been a while, so I can't remember what the DontZoom was

ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Brett
Hi, I just locked my screen with xlock, and pressed ctrl+alt+backspace. This shut down the x server and brought me to a command prompt. I have never seen this happen before...but maybe I just never tried this key combination before now. Should this happen? I'm running amd64-current compiled

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread patrick keshishian
$ man xorg.conf /DontZap On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com wrote: Hi, I just locked my screen with xlock, and pressed ctrl+alt+backspace. This shut down the x server and brought me to a command prompt. I have never seen this happen before...but maybe I just never tried

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Brett
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:51:19 +0100 Sebastian Benoit benoit-li...@fb12.de wrote: Brett(brett.ma...@gmx.com) on 2012.03.24 09:59:19 +1100: Hi, I just locked my screen with xlock, and pressed ctrl+alt+backspace. This shut down the x server and brought me to a command prompt. I have never

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5): Option DontZap boolean This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB action (usually on Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, depending on XKB options). This action is normally used to terminate

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Brett
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5): Option DontZap boolean This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB action (usually on

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5): Option DontZap boolean This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: ... how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server increasing security again? By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 03:18]: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5): Option DontZap boolean This disallows the use of the

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server increasing security again? By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few buttons

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few buttons and getting into a console. Have you considered ''exec startx'' instead of plain ''startx''? -- Jeremie Courreges-Anglas GPG fingerprint: 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Brett
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5):

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Brett
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:59:33 +0100 Jeremie Courreges-Anglas jca+m...@wxcvbn.org wrote: By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few buttons and getting into a console. Have you considered ''exec startx'' instead of plain ''startx''? -- Jeremie

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread patrick keshishian
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0400 Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett