[17673] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.3.28: XFree86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 16 16:12:27 2000
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:12:20 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200003162112.QAA15322@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: tb@mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
CC: Travis C Furrer <furrer@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17668] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
I think this came up with the AIX Athena port. The concern was that
zapping the X server might cause kerberos tickets to be left around.
However, these days the reactivaton that happens as xlogin comes up
will nuke these, at least on public machines, so I'm not sure how big
a deal this is.
Jonathon
> > What's wrong:
> > The Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc feature is enabled (The DontZap option
> > in /etc/X11/XF86Config is not enabled).
> >
> > What should have happened:
> > Do you really want people to be able to kill X and log
> > themselves out like that?
> I'm not sure why that's a bad thing. Could you elaborate?
