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- From: gilles@dgbt.doc.ca (Gilles Gagnon)
- Subject: Re: SLS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.201506.19400@dgbt.doc.ca>
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- Organization: The Communications Research Centre
- References: <1993Jan22.131617.5610@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:15:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.131617.5610@athena.mit.edu>, Alex Kambis <kambis@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov> writes:
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- ...
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- |> 1) Xwindows works great! (but if I xlock as anyone but root, it
- |> won't recognize my password. My only? option is to reset.)
- ...
- |>
- |> Many Thanks,
- |> Alex.
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- On this problem, it happened to me once and CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE got me out of
- xlock by getting me out of Xfree completely. I am afraid that the fact that
- I could get out of xlock and X11 by doing so could lead to a security problem.
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- I hope I am wrong.
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