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Re: Athena 9.4.27 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jun 23 02:33:41 2006
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:33:37 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 22 Jun 2006
at 20:42:04 -0400 in <200606230042.k5N0g4Pk009091@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>:
> On Linux:
> * ctrl-alt-backspace will not abort the X server on cluster machines.
...
> Please send any questions or comments to release-team@mit.edu. Please
> report any bugs you find with the "sendbug" command.
Did I miss the ultimate discussion on this issue?
I continue to think it is bad for usability and mostly irrelevent
for security.
It is an awfully handy feature to be able to log out users when things
get stuck/broken, which of course happens far too
freqeuently. Especially on quickstations, with dueling
xscreensaver/bugme that is often (but not always) non-responsive to
Ctrl-L.
I speak based on my day-to-day operational experience in clusters.
--jhawk
