xlockmore - serious security issue

[Anish Mistry]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 07:54, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 6/13/06, Anton Berezin <tobez at tobez.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:18:16PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Any coredumps?
>
> Nope. None at all.
>
> > What -modes do you use?  Other command line parameters?
>
> I just run "xlock". No args.
>
> > Sounds like a random -mode failure to me.
>
> Now that you mention it, it does. I'll try to stick to swarm. I
> kinda like random modes, though.
I just stick with a blank screen and works fine for several weeks at a 
time.  I found some of the GL screensavers to cause problems.

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Anish Mistry
amistry at am-productions.biz
AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/
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