In message <20011014111928.A2969@antwerpes.de>, Tobias Schuepp writes:
>By the way,
>
>does anyone know how to lock up X in a really secure way? I have to
>leave my office many time a day and i use xlock to lock my wm but one
>can do crtl+alt+backspace to kill the x server or use crtl+alt+f[1-4] to
>change to console. 
>
>Is it possible to disable these functions and without using a kdm or
>cdm? 
>
cntl+alt+Fn shouldn't be a problem -- either those are showing "login:" 
or you can lock them separately at the shell level.

As for cntl+alt+BS -- I use "exec xinit" (or "exec startx"), so that 
when X exits, it goes to a login: prompt.


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