Re: [dev] [SLOCK] is not safe

On (17/01/10 16:24), Gregor Best wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:24:11 +0100
> From: Gregor Best <gbe_AT_ring0.de>
> To: dev_AT_suckless.org
> Subject: Re: [dev] [SLOCK] is not safe
> List-Id: dev mail list <dev.suckless.org>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
>
> 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.
>

Not really, simply using 'startx & exit' instead of plain 'startx' is
sufficient.

-Ph

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