I just noticed this on my Intrepid box after my nvidia module was crashing X (after some updates/changes)...
This really should be fixed... "Status Undecided" for 3 months is poor form Ubuntu. If a normal user can find a way to get X to crash when starting, you can gain a root shell in seconds. While physical access is always a difficult problem to defend against... you could fix this issue by simply adding a proper password prompt. This is essentially single-user-mode for X, which on the console asks for your root password for maintenance... Why should this X11 equivalent be any different? /etc/gdm/failsafeXinit is also executable by other... why? -- [jaunty] low graphics lets you get root shell with no authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
