[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#349484: Problemas con el login

[Margarita Manterola]

Hi!

After talking with the reporter a bit, this is what he is actually reporting:

When he goes to the console, without having logged in (only having
entered the username), he is able to retrieve a list of processes
being executed in the system, by pressing CTRL or ALT plus some random
keys.

He does not remember which keys he pressed to retrieve this list of
processes.  He says that it looks similar to the output of ps, but
different.  He also says that he's using X and some apps, but I
suspect that this is completely unrelated.

My guess is that one of the "random keys" pressed is SysReq, and that
the list of processes he sees is the kernel output for CTRL-SysReq or
ALT-SysReq-T.

I've told him this, and explained that if this is in fact what he
sees, this is not a bug, but a feature of the kernel, that might be
disabled (by recompiling? by passing a special option to the kernel? I
don't know that much).  I also explained why this is not really a
problem (since you need physical access to be able to see the kernel
output).

So, unless he says that the output he sees has absolutely nothing to
do with the SysReq key, I'd say this report can be safely closed as a
no-bug-here report.

I will probably redirect him to debian-user-spanish for next questions
like this.

--
Besos,
Marga