Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (231 mails)

[Seth R Arnold <sarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I understand there is a program named "vlock" that does what you want -- but
be careful, if running the 2.1.x or 2.2.x or 2.3.x series of kernels, the
magic sysrq key can bypass that too.

On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:31:24AM -0600, Ben Livingood wrote:
> In SuSE 6.1 if I start up X from console 1 it starts the Xserver on
> console 7. Even through a locking program if I hit ctrl-alt-f1 I can hop
> back to my old console and then background that process. The security
> problem is if someone local to the machine was to hop on and do the same
> he could gain access to my account, no fuss no muss. Is there a way to
> defeat that bypass other than running @ Level 3 in init.d? 
> Ben
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