From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 12:44:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B09137B402 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 12:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020303204447.LPCK8848.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:44:47 +0000 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g23KkVj25709; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:46:31 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g23KjxF01958; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:45:59 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 20:45:59 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: "Scott M. Nolde" Cc: Kevin Oberman , Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Locking the screen Message-ID: <20020303204559.C286@localhost> References: <20020301192807.GB2147@raggedclown.net> <20020302004158.AE4F45D04@ptavv.es.net> <20020301213832.A32060@smnolde.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020301213832.A32060@smnolde.com>; from scott@smnolde.com on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:38:32PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:38:32PM -0500, Scott M. Nolde wrote: > Kevin Oberman(oberman@es.net)@2002.03.01 16:41:58 +0000: > > > Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:28:07 +0100 > > > From: Cliff Sarginson > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:02:26PM -0500, Dan Peck wrote: > > > > > > > > If your looking for an X based program, xscreensaver > > > > (/usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver) has a locking option. > > > > > > Bear in mind of course that if you are trying to lock any access to the > > > system the X lock is totally useless, since people can just alt/f to > > > another virtual console. > > > > That's not the real problem as the other vtys should not be logged > > in. The real threat is CTRL-ALT-BS. That leaves you with a live vty and > > no protection on it. I think [gkx]dm is a far safer way to deal with > > this. > > You can always alias startx='startx;exit'. That way if your X session > logged out or Ctrl-Alt-BS out the user would be at a login prompt. > > Combine that with a X screen lock and you might be better protected. Or disable the C-A-BS sequence (there's an option in XF86Config to do this). You can always log in on another vty to kill the X server if necessary. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message