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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 19:16:10 +0930

linux X windows screen lock useless?

Just now, I had activated the screen lock on a couple of
workstations before going home from the office, and
I thought I might try the old ctrl-alt-F1, and to my horror
noticed that a control-Z put the X windows in the background and
permitted me to use the shell - which of course was
able to use the ssh-agent's stored decrypted password to 
get into many other machines too.

Does this mean that the linux X window system screenlock is
completely useless?
That's how it seems to me.

Or is there some way to make a screen lock really lock
the monitor?

Cheerio,
Alan Kennington.

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