From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001107 Netscape6/6.0 when running gnome and putting locking the system with the xscreen saver. anyone can exit gnome and be returned to the command prompt by by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace. this command should work when in xwindows, but seem odd to allow this when the system is locked with a password. seems to defeat the purpose of even having a password on the screen saver. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot to command prompt under user or root account 2.enter gnome gui with "startx" 3."lock screen" by pushing the "lock screen" button and have xscreensaver password protected. 4. after screen saver is running press ctrl-alt-backspace 5. xwindows will terminated and give a working command prompt, hence no password protection. Actual Results: xwindows exited and the command prompt worked fine. Expected Results: i would have thought that this command would have been disabled so the only way to exit the screen saver would be with the correct password.
This is impossible to do from the screensaver, AFAIK.
I have just installed a fresh copy of Linux 7.0 download from Red Hats own site. I burned the iso, did the automatic install for a gnome workstation. When the screen saver is active xwindows CAN be exited, with the ctrl-alt-backspace command. This is 100% reproduceable, which seems to conflict with the resolution of "This is impossible to do from the screensaver" actually its quite possible and quite easy to do. The only non 7.0 component that I am running is the my XFree86-SVGA component which had to be down graded to 3.3.6-20 to work with my S3 Savage4 pro video card. I hope that these bugs are actually tested....
What I'm saying is that it's impossible to disable that key combination from the screensaver.
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