[2703] in Release_7.7_team
Re: xss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Apr 18 16:27:21 2001
Message-Id: <200104182027.QAA12038@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:11:43 EDT."
<200104181911.PAA09154@pothole.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:27:09 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> The newer versions of xss that we're running on bleeding and 9.0 alpha
>> machines have several idle modes which reveal the text on the locked
>> screen. This strikes me as the wrong thing for a screen locking program
>> to do, and I think we should disable those modes. Any other feelings on
>> this?
I agree with your take on this; in our environment, a screensaver is
used for preventing people from reading and tampering with the contents
of your login session. We should disable the xscreensaver hacks that
display the text on the locked screen.
Garry
