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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Security hole (or feature ;) in KDE Screensavers
From:       Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero () redhat ! de>
Date:       1999-10-17 10:59:41
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On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Geert Jansen wrote:

> > 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 ...
> 
> It is safe when you start X from x/kdm. This is recommended anyway because
> then the X server doesn't need to be suid root.

Alternatively, start X with

startx & exit

Works well here...

LLaP
bero

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