On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 01:01:32PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: > Is the 'Secure attention sequence" useful on Linux in general? > Supporting what people are used to is valuable in its own right, but > is there any security advantage to users using a special sequence to > commence unlocking in GNU+Linux? > I'd personally not want to use it because I've seen too many GNU+Linux > systems get rebooted by a C+A+D that was intended as a SAS. Sorry, I wasn't talking about a secure key (we don't have one) but rather pressing a key which doesn't actually _do_ anything in order to clear the screen. In olden times, sometimes when you pressed "enter" to clear a screensaver, you'd accidentally also say Okay to some dialog box underneath. The shield doesn't do that, but there's still a risk of it happening if the system is busy and slow to respond and you hit an "active" key several times in a row. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
