On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:48:48PM -0500, doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: > In gmane.comp.misc.suckless, you wrote: > > 2009/12/17 Tony Lainson <t.lain...@gmail.com>: > > No. A screen locker locks the system completely (apart from remote logins). > > This seems odd to me. So you are saying that on a multi-user system a > normal user can lock out the root user? And the only way for the root > user to unlock is to do a remote login? > No, he was just wrong. An X11 screen locker just locks X. Because of how X works, you are still able to ^-mod-F* to a virtual terminal and login as usual.
That's all. Regards, Claudio M. Alessi -- JID: smoppy AT gmail.com WWW: http://cma.teroristi.org
