Unlock your X without password

Yep… it’s pretty simple. Just press CTRL+ALT+* (from numerical keyboard).

Peter Hutterer, an X.org developer, posted an interesting article about this.

And the link to the original blog entry about it.

Written on January 21st, 2012 , ArchLinux, Debian, Linux Tags: linux, security, X

COMMENTS

It works only with X > 1.11 i think …

I could get it working on an Arch distribution but not a Debian … and apparently just with xscreensaver not gnome-screensaver

January 21, 2012 at 5:54 pm

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