[NTLUG:Discuss] (no subject)

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Thursday, 25 May, 2000, Jeremy Blosser did write:

> Joey_Berry at compusa.com [Joey_Berry at compusa.com] wrote:
> > While X windows is up with Xscreensaver w/ a password is on. Ctrl-Alt-Bckspc
> > still kills the X server. I feel this to be a bit of a security flaw how can I
> > disable the Ctrl-Alt-Bckspc feature?
> 
> Someone mentioned the way to do this, but ctrl-alt-backspace is
> occassionally what saves you from a reboot... an alternate solution is to
> use startx;vlock to start X, so that when X dies, you have to give a
> password to get the command line back.

Of course (especially on systems with limited RAM), why keep your login
shell in memory if you don't need it?

startx 1> x-server-output 2>&1 &
exit

Richard