why does chvt work fine as a regular user on a virtual terminal, but not under X?
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When I'm logged in as user "paul" on a virtual terminal (/dev/tty2 for example) and I type in "chvt 4" I get switched over to the virtual terminal for /dev/tty4 just fine. When, as user "paul" I type "chvt 7" I get switched over to the X window system. Just fine. HOWEVER... Within an xterm, if as u…
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Fix for: why does chvt work fine as a regular user on a virtual terminal, but not under X?
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From a security point-of-view, recall that X is designed to be used over the network as well as at the physical console. Virtual terminals aren't, so a login at the physical VT is a different security beast from X. From this Debian bug report on the…
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