How do I fix this mile wide security hole?
Chin Fang
fangchin at elaine54.Stanford.EDU
Thu May 2 14:35:38 AEST 1991
Every now and then I have to be away from my RS6000 console. Up to now
I haven't found a good way to lock my console. Xlock won't cut it since
anyone can walk up to my console, ALT-CNTL-BKSP, kills X, and then do
whatever s/he wants!
I can do a really *dirty* kludge using a shell wrapper as follows:
xmodmap unbind CNTL
call xlock
[user passwd validation]
xmodmap rebind CNTL
However, I don't really think the above even qualifies as a "solution".
Up to now, I just log out completely to protect my account, a BIG hassle
indeed considering we have 9600! users in yp, and it takes more than 30s
to get passwd prompt after login prompt!
I confess that RS6000 is still new to me and I might have missed some
utilities that I could have taken advantage of. If someone could
kindly point me to these or suggest me an elagent way to secure my console,
I would be very appreciative.
Please email your response. I promise a summary if there is enough interest.
Regards,
Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin at leland.stanford.edu
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