Re: [dev] [SLOCK] is not safe

From: Gregor Best <gbe_AT_ring0.de>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:24:11 +0100

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 04:17:16PM +0100, Julien Pecqueur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using slock and i am suprised to realize that is not safe at all!
>
> I launched slock in my DWM session. I just have to press CTRL+ALT+F1
> and press CTRL+z (to send startx in background an get the hand on the
> shell) and type "killall slock" to unlock the session...

Same thing with every other screen locker. The only "solution" is to
remove the ChangeVT* mappings from the xmodmap.

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    Gregor Best

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