From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 19:43:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 19:43:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8BD37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:43:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB73hPw88279; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:43:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:43:25 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Phil C Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xlock... Message-ID: <20001207144325.A74591@albury.net.au> References: <20001206212834.A34777@planw-65-33-233-186.pompano.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001206212834.A34777@planw-65-33-233-186.pompano.net>; from mongo@elephantitis.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:28:34PM -0500 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: nicks@giroc.albury.net.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Phil C (mongo@elephantitis.org): > I have on two seperate installations of FreeBSD (3.4 and 4.1) been logged in > as a 'normal' user and started xlock as that user... And then accidentally > typed the root password in and regained control of my X session... that does > not seem right to me.... AFAIR, it's been like that since forever. Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message