Comment 6 for bug 310040

I just noticed this on my Intrepid box after my nvidia module was crashing X (after some updates/changes)...

This really should be fixed... "Status Undecided" for 3 months is poor form Ubuntu.
If a normal user can find a way to get X to crash when starting, you can gain a root shell in seconds.

While physical access is always a difficult problem to defend against... you could fix this issue by simply adding a proper password prompt. This is essentially single-user-mode for X, which on the console asks for your root password for maintenance... Why should this X11 equivalent be any different?

/etc/gdm/failsafeXinit is also executable by other... why?