On Tue 2002-03-05, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I always considered Run Level 5 as a very bad idea, which I'll never want > to use. However, I recently run into a dillema here at the Computer > Networks farm. If I start X from the console and lock it, then a malicious > user can switch to the console from which it was invoked, press Ctrl+C or > Ctrl+Z and gain my permissions.
Maybe I am missing something, but why not simply log out of the terminal after you are done with your work? I sometimes do something like startx;exit 1; I mean, what's the problem if anyone can get at your console, as long as you are not actually being logged in there? (well, the user could do ctrl-alt-bksp, that's another issue) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
