RE: Unlocking xscreensaver as root

[Juan Martinez <martinez eecs cwru edu>]

The xscreensaver manpage says it should work.

I know I used to be able to unlock it with either passwd.  I remember
when I found that feature.  I have 2 similar installations
(one at work and one at home).  At work either password
unlocks the screen.   It definitely doesn't work at home.

This is so weird.



Juan


On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, MJ Dainty wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:33:06 +0100 (BST)
> From: MJ Dainty <madmatt@bits.bris.ac.uk>
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: RE: Unlocking xscreensaver as root
> 
> 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
> 
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