X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back to 1988 with X11R2

Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by iudqnolq on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:55AM (#37762166)

I want to login to my computer over some remote protocol (i.e vnc, rdp), execute "sudo systemctl reboot", wait a little, and log in again.

For this I think I need remote access to a logged out session, which as of my last check is impossible. (It's also poorly supported by gnome on x though)

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by kaba0 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:27AM (#37762803)

If you want to execute something in the terminal, why even bother with a graphical interface? Just ssh in and do it?

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by iudqnolq on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @05:59AM (#37762983)

The use case here is that I'm in a different physical location to the computer and want to remotely connect and run everything I'm working on on the remote computer in my remote window manager, including a browser and ide and terminal and so on.

Maybe I was too literal. The problem isn't executing the reboot command. The problem is logging in remotely to a computer that hasn't been logged into locally since it booted.

In particular the problem is that if I'm going to be remote for an extended period of time I have to ensure that nothing could interrupt the local session, and there's no fix if it does.

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Re:X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back... by kaba0 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:19PM (#37768463)

You can choose to start a session locally though.

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