Bug#564079: Is this really a screensaver issue?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 23 janvier 2010 à 11:37 +0100, Guido Günther a écrit :
> Hi,
> Should this really be handled in the screensaver? The user can also kill
> other processes during boot like accounting daemons and therefore
> compromise security. The only "fix" is to disable this feature.

I fully concur. Such a “feature” should be disabled by default, and this
has to be done in the kernel packages.

I’d appreciate if we could have some input from the kernel maintainers.

Cheers,
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