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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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