RE: Unlocking xscreensaver as root

[MJ Dainty <madmatt bits bris ac uk>]

Padraig O'Briain wrote:

| Are you saying that if I lock my screen, someone could come along and unlock it 
| without knowing my password or root's password?

You can't use Ctrl+Alt+F? to get to a virtual terminal when the
screensaver is running, I've tried with 3.25 and it won't let you, it just
brings up the password box. If you got to a virtual terminal you'd still
need either root or the user login to be able to kill the screensaver
process, unless your system is buggy enough to let anyone kill any
process...

In the above case, it is common for the superuser to be able to override
the password, so only the active user or root can disable the screensaver.
But they should be the only cases...

I'm also curious why I can't use root password to unlock the screensaver,
I'm sure I used to be able to...but maybe it's my imagination.

Matt