C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > >> A Debian wheezy server sometimes shows root shells on the logon window. > > >You say Debian Wheezy. Good. You say services thin clients. How? > >By what methods are the thin clients serviced? Are they NFS diskless? > >Are they X terminals using XDMCP? Other? > > Its an xfce4 based system. The root shell, sometimes shells, > overlay the login pane on the login screen. There is supposed to be > no command line visible.
I work with many XFCE systems and do not see this behavior. I can't imagine how it might be occurring unintentionally. > >Most importantly you say a "root shell on the login window" but that > >needs more description. Are you running a graphical login manager > >such as xdm, gdm, gdm3, kdm, lightdm? If so which one are you using? > > Users have to enter a logon and password to login. Yes but what graphical login manager are you using? Are you using xdm, gdm, gdm3, kdm, lightdm or other? If you have a test system and can install a pristine version of Debian Wheezy recording the install and configuration actions and can recreate the steps that are needed to cause this this problem then it could be filed as a release critical bug. Since you are the only one seeing this problem it can't be a general use case but must be something specific to the way your system is set up. Bob
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