Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-07 Thread Truxton King Fulton II
Colin Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: another method is to use exec startx. -Truxton On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This is a no-answer. Starting X from the console is a valid -- and even prefered, IMHO -- way of starting X. If I *need* to use

Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-06 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
If someone told me he could enter in my accout if I left my screen locked I would say he's nuts, but that's exactly what I found out. It is a simple combinated use of X and xlock when xdm isn't used. How? Let's say someone simply locks his computer with xlock. All you need to do is change to

Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: If someone told me he could enter in my accout if I left my screen locked I would say he's nuts, but that's exactly what I found out. It is a simple combinated use of X and xlock when xdm isn't used. How? Let's say someone simply locks his computer with

Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-06 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Joey Hess writes: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: If someone told me he could enter in my accout if I left my screen locked I would say he's nuts, but that's exactly what I found out. It is a simple combinated use of X and xlock when xdm isn't used. How? Let's say someone

Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This is a no-answer. Starting X from the console is a valid -- and even prefered, IMHO -- way of starting X. If I *need* to use xdm, I'll always have to have the memory-eating X, which seems unaceptable for me, if I'm not using X. Ok, I should have provided more

Re: Am I missing something or is this a HUGE security flaw?

1998-05-06 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This is a no-answer. Starting X from the console is a valid -- and even prefered, IMHO -- way of starting X. If I *need* to use xdm, I'll always have to have the memory-eating X, which seems unaceptable for me, if I'm