On Thursday 11 August 2005 19:35, Justin Reigle wrote: > > I now think that there is a security advantage to using xdm to bring up > > KDE - namely, that there is no unprotected console session which can be > > hijacked by someone sitting down at the computer, finding the session > > from which KDE was started, and putting startkde in the background. > > > > Well, what happens when they reboot the box, go in with boot -s, > get the root shell and cause havoc?
The computer requires a password to reboot. > If you're that concerned about people > sitting down in front of your machine to cause problems, then protect it > with something physical (e.g. caged rack with lock). Actually I'm not particularly concerned about this right now.
