On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:39:41 +1100
Joel Sing wrote:
>
> Or:
>
> $ startx & lock -np
> --
>
Of the suggestions, I like this one the best - no need to generate an xorg.conf
file, also when I press the power button on my desktop, shutdown will happen
straight away, if I use "exec startx" it
On Saturday 24 March 2012, Brett wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0400
>
> Nick Holland wrote:
> > On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> > >
> > > Henning Brauer wrote:
> > >> * Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
> > >> > > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5
On 24 March 2012 15:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
> Option "DontZap" "on"
> Option "DontVTSwitch" "on"
> Option "DontZoom" "on"
>
> Was what I used with some success to keep people out of the console on
> some internet kiosk devices. Been a while, so I can't remember what the
> DontZoom was for.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:35:53PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012, Brett wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> > Henning Brauer wrote:
> >> how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server
> >> increasing security again?
> >>
> >
> > By stopping anyone
This is what I do on 5.0/i386.
I have this line in /etc/ttys:
ttyC5 "/bin/Lock" vt220 on secure
To lock the computer I run this executable /bin/Lock:
#!/bin/sh
pass=sparken
exe=/bin/Lock
fifo=/var/Lock
case "$1" in
ttyC*) t=/dev/$1
tty=$t exec $exe exe < $t > $t 2> $t ;;
exe)
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Brett wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0400
> Nick Holland wrote:
>
>> On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote:
>> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
>> > Henning Brauer wrote:
>> >
>> >> * Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
>> >> > > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:59:33 +0100
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> > By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few
> > buttons and getting into a console.
> Have you considered ''exec startx'' instead of plain ''startx''?
>
> --
> Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
> GPG fin
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:30:40 -0400
Nick Holland wrote:
> On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> > Henning Brauer wrote:
> >
> >> * Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
> >> > > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5):
> >> > >
> >> > > Option "DontZap" "boolean"
> >>
> By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few
> buttons and getting into a console.
Have you considered ''exec startx'' instead of plain ''startx''?
--
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas
GPG fingerprint: 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012, Brett wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> Henning Brauer wrote:
>> how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server
>> increasing security again?
>>
>
> By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few
> buttons and getting
* Brett [2012-03-24 03:18]:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
> > > > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5):
> > > >
> > > > Option "DontZap" "boolean"
> > > > This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB action
> > > >
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Brett wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> Henning Brauer wrote:
...
>> how exactly is preventing yourself from killing your own X server
>> increasing security again?
>
> By stopping anyone wandering by my desk (or the cat) from pressing a few
> buttons
On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
> Henning Brauer wrote:
>
>> * Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
>> > > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5):
>> > >
>> > > Option "DontZap" "boolean"
>> > > This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB action
>> > >
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100
Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
> > > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5):
> > >
> > > Option "DontZap" "boolean"
> > > This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB action
> > > (usually on Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, depending
* Brett [2012-03-24 01:56]:
> > its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5):
> >
> > Option "DontZap" "boolean"
> > This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB action
> > (usually on Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, depending on XKB options).
> > This action is normally used to terminate the
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:51:19 +0100
Sebastian Benoit wrote:
> Brett(brett.ma...@gmx.com) on 2012.03.24 09:59:19 +1100:
> > 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 th
$ man xorg.conf
/DontZap
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Brett 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 combina
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 Mar
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