Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:54:48 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: "Anton Berezin" <tobez@tobez.org>, "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD Ports" <ports@freebsd.org>, "UMENO Takashi" <umeno@rr.iij4u.or.jp>, "Tobias Roth" <ports@fsck.ch> Subject: Re: xlockmore - serious security issue Message-ID: <cb5206420606130454i2c4fac71m53c7b2d81839e7dd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060613113151.GC8105@heechee.tobez.org> References: <cb5206420606130418x706ccd61t5840bd2b0c00f61b@mail.gmail.com> <20060613113151.GC8105@heechee.tobez.org>
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On 6/13/06, Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:18:16PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > For months I've been in doubt, holding my own insanity > > responsible for compromising my own workstation for > > several times on end. > > > > The problem is that xlockmore exits all by itself when > > left alone for a couple of days. It works all right overnight, > > but when left for the weekend, it almost certainly fails. I > > just come to work and see that my workstation is unlocked, > > what a surprise. > > > > At first I was sure that xlockmore could not just fail like that, > > that it was me who forgot to launch it before leaving. But for > > the last few times (over a month, considering that I can only > > experiment at weekends), I made a strong mental note > > about me launching xlock (I do it from the fluxbox context > > menu, btw). > > > > Has anyone experienced this? My xlockmore is compiled > > without any knobs tweaked. I use 5.22 and I'm not sure > > if this problem was there in 5.21 or earlier versions. What > > I am sure of is that I've used xlockmore for over a year > > and never had this problem until a few months back. > > Any coredumps? Nope. None at all. > What -modes do you use? Other command line parameters? I just run "xlock". No args. > Sounds like a random -mode failure to me. Now that you mention it, it does. I'll try to stick to swarm. I kinda like random modes, though.
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