root "login" xterm to increase security?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 20:15:56 PDT 2018


Any search will bring basic stuff like

https://insecure.org/sploits/xsecurekeyboard_fequent_query.html
https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/three-features-you-may-not-know-xterm-has/
http://tutorials.section6.net/home/basics-of-securing-x11
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/83adcn/does_openbsd_x11_not_have_security_problems/

Whether xorg, wayland, xenocara, drivers, ttys, init, login, getty,
etc are receiving any level of scrutiny, audits, fuzzing, code
scans, etc. The ancient and obscure it is, the less people look,
and all the above are exactly that.
Even mashing kbd on a FreeBSD can throw console into
unrecoverable must kill state.
And people talk how trust X?



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