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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Security hole (or feature ;) in KDE Screensavers
From:       Terényi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bal=E1zs?= <terenyi () freemail ! c3 ! hu>
Date:       1999-10-16 18:30:50
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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Markus Goetz wrote:
>Hi,
>
>when i use a screen saver to protect my computer while i am away, anybody who
>wants to acess my computer needs the password.
>
>But this is really NO PROTECTION ... if i do a startx from tty1, my X11 is on
>tty7 .. The one who wants acess to my account when i am away from my desktop
>does just have to press CTRL+ALT+F1, then he gets to the X11 Output where i
>used startx to start X11... so now he just has to press CTRL+C to kill X11 and
>has acess to my account and may type rm -rf $HOME ...
>
>So why the hell is there a password protection in the kde screen savers if it
>is useless ???
>
>Markus

Use kdm.

Regards,
	Balázs

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