Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:31:51 +0200 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@gmail.com> Cc: 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: <20060613113151.GC8105@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420606130418x706ccd61t5840bd2b0c00f61b@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420606130418x706ccd61t5840bd2b0c00f61b@mail.gmail.com>
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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? What -modes do you use? Other command line parameters? Sounds like a random -mode failure to me. I've been using -mode swarm for 8 or 9 years now with no ill effects whatsoever, with multiple versions of FreeBSD, X11, and xlockmore. \Anton. -- An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey
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