"Ctrl-Alt-Del to login" important for security?

[James Livingston]

On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:44 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> For a malicious user to do what you suggest, they would have to have write 
> permission to the display.

Which is fairly easy to get.

User A logs in, starts a full-screen application which looks like GDM,
and walks away. User B comes up to the machine, sees what looks like GDM
and attempts to log in. User A now has user B's password.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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