Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread David J. Haines
On Jan 20, 2012 2:10 AM, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote:

 On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote:
  On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
  taviana...@tavianator.com wrote:
  On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin dkorzhe...@lsupport.net
wrote:
  a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with
physical
  access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
  Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
  away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
  kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
  same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...
 
  Read more:
 
http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up
 
  ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.
 
  IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
  screen lockers.
 
  http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217
 
  --
  Tavian Barnes
 
  No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
  custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
  and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.

 Please check if your custom layout contains the string XF86_ClearGrab
 (maybe also without the underscore) and if yes, replace it with
 NoSymbol. Don't forget to reload it afterwards.

 --
 Florian Pritz


I will be sure to do that, but that does seem only to address the symptom
and not the underlying sickness. As I intimated earlier, this is most
likely an issue for the app (or more precisely screen locking app) writers.

Thanks for what looks to be a great intirim solution!


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread David J. Haines
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:53 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Jan 20, 2012 2:10 AM, Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at wrote:

 On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote:
  On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
  taviana...@tavianator.com wrote:
  On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin dkorzhe...@lsupport.net
  wrote:
  a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with
  physical
  access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
  Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
  away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
  kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
  same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...
 
  Read more:
 
  http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up
 
  ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.
 
  IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
  screen lockers.
 
  http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217
 
  --
  Tavian Barnes
 
  No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
  custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
  and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.

 Please check if your custom layout contains the string XF86_ClearGrab
 (maybe also without the underscore) and if yes, replace it with
 NoSymbol. Don't forget to reload it afterwards.

 --
 Florian Pritz


 I will be sure to do that, but that does seem only to address the symptom
 and not the underlying sickness. As I intimated earlier, this is most likely
 an issue for the app (or more precisely screen locking app) writers.

 Thanks for what looks to be a great intirim solution!

FYI, this interim solution does work. I'll make sure that xscreensaver
upstream knows about this issue.

David J. Haines
dhai...@gmail.com


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.01.2012 02:08, schrieb Tavian Barnes:
 IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
 screen lockers.
 
 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217
 

This post is horribly wrong.

1) The documentation cited is from Xorg 6.8, which is terribly old.
2) The options cited do not exist anymore.
3) With the removal of the 'misc' extension, the API to disable these
features does not exist anymore. Even when the options still existed,
the documentation was updated accordingly, see [1].

So, you are wrong, the screen lockers have no way to fight this.
Disabling these keys in keymaps is not an interim solution, but the
final one.

[1]
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1a573e402ec112913a404f092b5b97d8d9210f94



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Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread David J. Haines
I stand corrected in my interim language.

David J. Haines
dhai...@gmail.com



On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote:
 Am 20.01.2012 02:08, schrieb Tavian Barnes:
 IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
 screen lockers.

 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217


 This post is horribly wrong.

 1) The documentation cited is from Xorg 6.8, which is terribly old.
 2) The options cited do not exist anymore.
 3) With the removal of the 'misc' extension, the API to disable these
 features does not exist anymore. Even when the options still existed,
 the documentation was updated accordingly, see [1].

 So, you are wrong, the screen lockers have no way to fight this.
 Disabling these keys in keymaps is not an interim solution, but the
 final one.

 [1]
 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1a573e402ec112913a404f092b5b97d8d9210f94



Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread Sébastien le Preste de Vauban

El 20/01/12 04:10, Florian Pritz escribió:

On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
taviana...@tavianator.com  wrote:

On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevindkorzhe...@lsupport.net  wrote:

a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

Read more:
http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
screen lockers.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217

--
Tavian Barnes

No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.

Please check if your custom layout contains the string XF86_ClearGrab
(maybe also without the underscore) and if yes, replace it with
NoSymbol. Don't forget to reload it afterwards.

I did that and it solved the problem with the ctrl+atl+* key combo, but 
I realized that ctrl+atl+/ does the same thing =(

I attach my custom xkbcomp file.


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread Florian Pritz
On 20.01.2012 18:38, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote:
 El 20/01/12 04:10, Florian Pritz escribió:
 On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
 taviana...@tavianator.com  wrote:
 On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevindkorzhe...@lsupport.net  wrote:
 a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
 access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
 Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
 away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
 kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
 same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

 Read more:
 http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.
 IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
 screen lockers.

 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217

 --
 Tavian Barnes
 No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
 custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
 and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.
 Please check if your custom layout contains the string XF86_ClearGrab
 (maybe also without the underscore) and if yes, replace it with
 NoSymbol. Don't forget to reload it afterwards.

 I did that and it solved the problem with the ctrl+atl+* key combo, but 
 I realized that ctrl+atl+/ does the same thing =(
 I attach my custom xkbcomp file.

The 4 debug symbols are: XF86LogGrabInfo, XF86Ungrab, XF86ClearGrab,
XF86LogWindowTree

Ungrab and ClearGrab can break things, while Log* are pretty harmless.

-- 
Florian Pritz



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Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-20 Thread Sébastien le Preste de Vauban

El 20/01/12 15:07, Florian Pritz escribió:

On 20.01.2012 18:38, Sébastien le Preste de Vauban wrote:

El 20/01/12 04:10, Florian Pritz escribió:

On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
taviana...@tavianator.com   wrote:

On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevindkorzhe...@lsupport.net   wrote:

a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

Read more:
http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
screen lockers.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217

--
Tavian Barnes

No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.

Please check if your custom layout contains the string XF86_ClearGrab
(maybe also without the underscore) and if yes, replace it with
NoSymbol. Don't forget to reload it afterwards.


I did that and it solved the problem with the ctrl+atl+* key combo, but
I realized that ctrl+atl+/ does the same thing =(
I attach my custom xkbcomp file.

The 4 debug symbols are: XF86LogGrabInfo, XF86Ungrab, XF86ClearGrab,
XF86LogWindowTree

Ungrab and ClearGrab can break things, while Log* are pretty harmless.


Thanks, removing all references to Ungrab and ClearGrab solved the problem.


[arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Dmitry Korzhevin
a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

Read more:
http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Korzhevin
Tel: +38 (039) 295-
Office Phone: +38 (044) 383-14-12
E-mail: dkorzhe...@lsupport.net
Jabber ID: dkorzhe...@lsupport.net
Skype: dkorzhevin
URL: http://lsupport.net
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Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

On a fully updated system?
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
 dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 On a fully updated system?
 http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html

 It works on mine as well. Fully updated.

Just to make sure: are you running xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3?


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
 dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 On a fully updated system?
 http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html

 It works on mine as well. Fully updated.

 Just to make sure: are you running xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3?

Yep.

David J. Haines
dhai...@gmail.com


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:32 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
 dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 On a fully updated system?
 http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html

 It works on mine as well. Fully updated.

 Just to make sure: are you running xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3?

 Yep.

Then please ask for reopening of this report
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28008 and say that you have
xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3 and the hack still works.


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Ionut Biru
On 01/20/2012 01:32 AM, David J. Haines wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
 dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 On a fully updated system?
 http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html

 It works on mine as well. Fully updated.

 Just to make sure: are you running xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3?
 
 Yep.
 
 David J. Haines
 dhai...@gmail.com

have you restarted X since the update?

-- 
Ionuț



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Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Holmes
Cannot reproduce, using xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3, xscreensaver with
Xfce 4.8. Looks like the testing version has this patched.


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Michael Holmes holmesm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Cannot reproduce, using xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3, xscreensaver with
 Xfce 4.8. Looks like the testing version has this patched.

There's none, the only xkeyboard-config we have in the synced mirrors
is already in extra:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=q=xkeyboard-configmaintainer=last_update=flagged=limit=50


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org wrote:
 On 01/20/2012 01:32 AM, David J. Haines wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz
 karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
 dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 On a fully updated system?
 http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html

 It works on mine as well. Fully updated.

 Just to make sure: are you running xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3?

 Yep.

 David J. Haines
 dhai...@gmail.com

 have you restarted X since the update?

 --
 Ionuț


I just restarted, and it's exhibiting the same behavior.


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:04 AM, David J. Haines dhai...@gmail.com wrote:
 I just restarted, and it's exhibiting the same behavior.

Do you have a Happy Hacking Keyboard? ;-)


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Don Juan

On 01/19/2012 04:04 PM, David J. Haines wrote:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Ionut Biruib...@archlinux.org  wrote:

On 01/20/2012 01:32 AM, David J. Haines wrote:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com  wrote:

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:28 AM, David J. Hainesdhai...@gmail.com  wrote:

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Karol Blazewicz
karol.blazew...@gmail.com  wrote:

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Dmitry Korzhevin
dkorzhe...@lsupport.net  wrote:

ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

On a fully updated system?
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-January/024298.html

It works on mine as well. Fully updated.

Just to make sure: are you running xkeyboard-config 2.4.1-3?

Yep.

David J. Haines
dhai...@gmail.com

have you restarted X since the update?

--
Ionuț


I just restarted, and it's exhibiting the same behavior.

Happens for me as well, fully updated and restarted.


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Don Juan

On 01/19/2012 04:07 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:04 AM, David J. Hainesdhai...@gmail.com  wrote:

I just restarted, and it's exhibiting the same behavior.

Do you have a Happy Hacking Keyboard? ;-)

Retract my last statement. I do not have the issue still my bad :(


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Mauro Santos
On 20-01-2012 00:08, Don Juan wrote:

 I just restarted, and it's exhibiting the same behavior.
 Happens for me as well, fully updated and restarted.
 

Works fine here. Fully up-to-date x86_64, radeon driver, xscreensaver, xfce.

-- 
Mauro Santos


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Tavian Barnes
On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
 access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
 Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
 away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
 kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
 same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

 Read more:
 http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
screen lockers.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217

-- 
Tavian Barnes


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread David J. Haines
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
taviana...@tavianator.com wrote:
 On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
 access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
 Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
 away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
 kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
 same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

 Read more:
 http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
 screen lockers.

 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217

 --
 Tavian Barnes

No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.

In playing about, it looks like if your WM (or another program?) grabs
the alt key, as does xmonad by default, then the combination won't
produce the result. I have Caps Lock send mod4mask (the Windows key),
have left Alt send Alt, and right Alt send AltGr. I can kill
xscreensaver with Ctrl-Left Alt-Keypad *, but not with Right Alt,
which would make sense given the keyboard setup.

In the end, though, I think Tavian is right. Before they reintroduced
this feature, it was up to applications to disable it themselves,
IIRC.


Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Pritz
On 20.01.2012 02:08, Tavian Barnes wrote:
 On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
 access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
 Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
 away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
 kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
 same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

 Read more:
 http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.
 
 IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
 screen lockers.
 
 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217
 

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1a573e402ec112913a404f092b5b97d8d9210f94

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=22e64108ec63ba9891f8df237913ef9ca731

-- 
Florian Pritz



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Re: [arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

2012-01-19 Thread Florian Pritz
On 20.01.2012 02:18, David J. Haines wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tavian Barnes
 taviana...@tavianator.com wrote:
 On 19 January 2012 18:23, Dmitry Korzhevin dkorzhe...@lsupport.net wrote:
 a funny bug in the Xorg server that could allow attackers with physical
 access to a machine to bypass the screensaver/screen locker program.
 Most people use those programs to lock their computer when they are
 away. On Gnome, gnome-screensaver is responsible for this. On KDE,
 kscreenlocker is. There is a wide variety of smaller tools doing the
 same thing, e.g. slock, slimlock, i3lock...

 Read more:
 http://gu1.aeroxteam.fr/2012/01/19/bypass-screensaver-locker-program-xorg-111-and-up

 ctrl+atl+*(on num lock keyboard) confirmed and work in arch linux.

 IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
 screen lockers.

 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217

 --
 Tavian Barnes
 
 No Happy Hacking Keyboard (1996 IBM Model M, baby!), but I do use a
 custom keyboard layout that allows me to type international letters
 and switch entirely to a phonetic Cyrillic layout.

Please check if your custom layout contains the string XF86_ClearGrab
(maybe also without the underscore) and if yes, replace it with
NoSymbol. Don't forget to reload it afterwards.

-- 
Florian Pritz



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