Re: [ILUG] Screnn saver Password.

From: Jason A. Corcoran. (corcoranj at domain logica.com)
Date: Sat 15 Jul 2000 - 17:23:21 IST


I am acutaly the only user on this machine I tried all passwords I could think
of.

Jason.

"Ronny B." wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 05:09:33PM +0100, Jason A. Corcoran wrote:
> > writing this mail. To get around this I just
> > pressed Ctrl - F4 entered an virtual console and
> > just killed the screen saver. Not exactly high
> > security. Is there any other way to stop this. I
> > normally leave a virtual console logged in. I know
> > that is not very security minded.
> Have you tried the root password? I know it sounds insane, but I've seen
> it happen...suid executables are scary!
>
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> O- Nny
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