xlockmore - serious security issue

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

For months I've been in doubt, holding my own insanity
responsible for compromising my own workstation for
several times on end.

The problem is that xlockmore exits all by itself when
left alone for a couple of days. It works all right overnight,
but when left for the weekend, it almost certainly fails. I
just come to work and see that my workstation is unlocked,
what a surprise.

At first I was sure that xlockmore could not just fail like that,
that it was me who forgot to launch it before leaving. But for
the last few times (over a month, considering that I can only
experiment at weekends), I made a strong mental note
about me launching xlock (I do it from the fluxbox context
menu, btw).

Has anyone experienced this? My xlockmore is compiled
without any knobs tweaked. I use 5.22 and I'm not sure
if this problem was there in 5.21 or earlier versions. What
I am sure of is that I've used xlockmore for over a year
and never had this problem until a few months back.

Thanks!