[1495] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
[linux-security] Re: Re: X-Windows security hole?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Gonzalez)
Wed Apr 2 02:33:25 1997
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:44:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jorge Gonzalez <jorgegv@iit.upco.es>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
cc: Roman Garcia <nykros@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar>
In-Reply-To: <199704010701.JAA00925@cave.BitWizard.nl>
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
: Roman Garcia wrote:
:
: > How can disable <Ctrl><Alt>F_n>? Are there other ways to get root
: > prompt? How much secure is xlock?
:
: > Thanks in advance. Roman Garcia.
:
Read the paragraphs about the VTSysReq and VTInit keywords in the man
page for XF86Config, it just talks about this problem and how to solve
it.
[mod: This is the reply I was waiting for :-) Lots of people mailed
that there are several different tricks to get rid of the shell
beneath the X server. That is the same as what "exec startx" does.
This was already in the original.
Furthermore, many remarked that "hostile" access to a console off
course means that you should prevent people from booting single user
by putting passwords on lilo and the BIOS. -- REW]
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Instituto de Investigaci=F3n Tecnol=F3gica - UPCo --- Madrid (SPAIN)
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