full-disclosure - MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back

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Message-ID: <20030704214241.GA3818@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
From: petard at sdf.lonestar.org (petard)
Subject: MacOSX - crash screensaver locked with password and get the desktop back

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> how? - you ask.
> i don't know the exact amount of characters, only that if you leave a
> key pressed for 5 minutes or more and then hit the enter key, you crash
> the screensaver and gain access to the desktop.
> you can mess the desktop and all around it (network, mail, docs,
> anything you can imagine).

it's much easier than that to reproduce; with the right combination of
cut and paste (think emacs key bindings) you can overfill  the field and
get through in just a few seconds :-). on one of the machines here
(version 10.2.6 for those who care) it took 10 - 15 seconds in most
cases.

hopefully no one considered the screensaver to be much protection...

regards,
petard

- --
"Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication,
which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather
than admiration."
    -- Niklaus Wirth
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