[lug] Funny security hack.

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Thu Jul 31 22:09:58 MDT 2008


Sam Noble wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 22:32 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
>> For fun I may go figure out what it takes to run gdm on one of my
>> VCs. 
>> If I get tired of coding, which is a lot more fun than I remember it.
> 
> You could try typing "gdmflexiserver"
> 
> On most of my systems it locks the screen and then starts a seperate
> instance of X and GDM on on VC8.

Yeah, I remembered that last time I thought to do that with kdm it 
turned out there was just a switch user button that did that.  I haven't 
seen it in RH4 Gnome but I figured there was something like it.  I'll 
have a look.

Dave



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