Re: Xlock on login

[Ikke <eikke eikke com>]

> Hi,
Hey

> ...
In se the idea isn't too bad, but I see one problem: I got Gaim and a
terminal running Irssi in my session. So if I'd use this system, boot my
PC, and only return an hour later or so, I'll be "online" with both
systems, people will start talking to me, and they wont get any
response, something lots of people hate.
One could get around this by giving special states to applications in
gnome-session (which defines whether the app should be started when GDM
"times out", *or* when the user actually logs in).

Next to this (although I'm not 100% sure this is a big problem) if I
(eg) configure my brother's PC to do this for his user, and I still got
an account on the machine, I could ctrl-alt-f1, login on console, then
use some bug in some program to read data out of the memory of one of
the processes running (under his UID), or do some other bad things.
That'd be due to a bug in a desktop app of course, which
GDM/gnome-session can't predict nor prevent.

> Karel Demeyer
> http://gnometux.blogspot.com

Ikke
http://www.eikke.com