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Month: November 2013

Possible security glitch with switching users?

From: "Darrell Anderson" <darrella@...>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 17:56:15 -0600
All,

I don't know whether this is a security glitch or PEBKAC.

I was testing the graphical login with TDM:

* I logged in as User 1.
* From the TDE menu I selected Switch User->Start New Session.
* I logged in as User 2.
* I switched to User 1 *without* needing a password.
* I switched to User 2 and needed a password.
* I typed the password, switched to User 1, and needed a password.

I repeated this exercise three times with a system reboot each 
time. Each time the first instance of switching did not require a 
password.

Further, I was not always asked for a password on subsequent 
switching, especially when I used the keyboard toggles of Ctrl-Alt-
F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8.

SAK is disabled.

I only used Switch User->Start New Session. I did not use Switch 
User->Lock Current & Start New Session.

Thoughts?

Darrell