On Tuesday 22 November 2011 10:47:12 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
Whenever my screen locks (e.g. from my screen saver or from manually locking) and I go to unlock, I'm told to press CTRL+ALT+Del, and it says it's displaying that so the login screen doesn't get spoofed.
When logging out, I get a window saying it's saving my settings.
Both of these remind me of WinXP. The CTRL+ALT+Del thing is of WinNT (XP is based on NT).
Is there a way to turn this off?
Also, if the CTRL+ALT+Del thing is used for unlocking, why not too for logging in?
It is normally used for both unlock and login. It is a generic implementation of a Secure Attention Key (SAK), without which Linux is actually less secure than Windows.
Never heard of it, nor have I ever seen CTRL+ALT+Del in Linux
The SAK support can be turned off in the KDM control center module.
I don't see it anywhere under Login Manager or KDM Theme Manager. These are the only two modules that show up when I type kdm into the search box for kcontrol.