From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 18:38:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smnolde.com (att-98-60-141.atl.mediaone.net [24.98.60.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667AA37B405 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:38:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsd ([192.168.10.7] helo=bsd.smnolde.com) by smnolde.com with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.30 #1) id 16gzPt-0004MI-00; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:38:33 -0500 Received: from scott by bsd.smnolde.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gzPs-000E5s-00; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:38:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:38:32 -0500 From: "Scott M. Nolde" To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Locking the screen Message-ID: <20020301213832.A32060@smnolde.com> References: <20020301192807.GB2147@raggedclown.net> <20020302004158.AE4F45D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020302004158.AE4F45D04@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:41:58PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: If you can read this you're looking for too much 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 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. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message