Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

Remco remco47 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 23:47:14 UTC 2009


On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia at di.unipi.it> wrote:
> Can someone tell me how will I protect myself from fake login screens in
>  multi-user ubuntu setups? Even my office machine is multi-user!

It took me a while to figure out what you meant by this, but yeah!
That's actually a pretty nasty way to steal passwords. Shouldn't the
login screen instruct you to press C-A-B before trying to log in?

Remco




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