Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 17:52:27 +0100 From: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X11 security issues??? Message-ID: <20041105165227.GA31210@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <4188898D.6050001@yahoo.com> References: <41888720.7090301@computer.org> <4188898D.6050001@yahoo.com>
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On 03 Nov Rob wrote: > Eric Schuele wrote: > >However, F1 takes you to the ttyv I'm logged in to and this gives you > >the opportunity to Ctrl-C my X session... leaving you standing in my > >shell! > > How do you start your X session? > It seems like you log in via one of the text terminals (ttyv0) and > then start X with the 'startx' command. > > Why don't you use xdm with X login instead? > (I suppose you understand this, otherwise you may need some more > guidance on how to set up X). Another thing you could do is make an alias like "startx=exec startx" or something like that in you <shell>rc This way a user still could access your screen w/ ctrl/alt/Fx, but stopping your Xsession will result in a to begin with but since they prompt for pwds... not catastrophic. logout ;-) -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.10 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilya
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