Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

[patrick keshishian]

$ man xorg.conf
/DontZap

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Brett <brett.ma...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just locked my screen with xlock, and pressed ctrl+alt+backspace. This
shut down the x server and brought me to a command prompt. I have never seen
this happen before...but maybe I just never tried this key combination before
now. Should this happen? I'm running amd64-current compiled March 20.
>
> Not sure if related to:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=132699014520853&w=2
>
> (Workaround CVE-2012-0064, password-locked X screen savers can be bypassed
with Ctrl Alt *).
>
> Brett.