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From: davec@shared.uucp (Dave Close)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: How do I fix this mile wide security hole?
Message-ID: <1991May05.014827.12274@shared.uucp>
Date: 5 May 91 01:48:27 GMT
References: <1991May2.043538.10610@leland.Stanford.EDU> <7237@awdprime.UUCP>
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Organization: Shared Financial Systems, Dallas, TX
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In article <7237@awdprime.UUCP> mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown) writes:
>fangchin@elaine54.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
>  > Every now and then I have to be away from my RS6000 console.  Up to now
>  > I haven't found a good way to lock my console.  Xlock won't cut it since
>  > anyone can walk up to my console, ALT-CNTL-BKSP, kills X, and then do 
>  > whatever s/he wants!
>Look at the "-T" option on the command "X" which starts the X server.

Note that -T *only* inhibits CNTL-ALT-BKSP.  It does not inhibit ALT-ACTION.
Unless you are careful, you may have left behind a logged-in screen which
is reachable by ALT-ACTION.  This is true if you start X with 'open'.  To
prevent that problem, you can enter 'open xinit;exit'.

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