On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Darren Eckhoff wrote:
-The root user should ALWAYS have access, especially to the console. This is probably
-and oversight of the KDE people, because it does work in CDE. Killing the X server
-will get you in but seems extreme for just getting past a screen saver ("I sure
-hope Johnny saved his work!"). Another way you could try to extinguish the screen-
-saver is to telnet into the box as root and kill the screensaver process; or better
-yet, just hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login as root to do the same, then hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to
-get back into X windows.
When I tried that with k-science running, the X-sever crashed. That
may have been because of some other peculiar permission problems I
have been having but I doubt it.
--
Stephen Carville
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Any law that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the grounds
that guns are a public health hazard should be treated the same as
a law that burdens Atheism as a mental health hazard.
