Re: locking the console
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:22:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> >vlock' (which is not
> >really useful without the -a).
>
> which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted
> this is often not to big a problem since usually there is only one
> person at a time using the console. (or preferably only trusted
> users...)
>
Sorry, what I meant was that 'openvt -sw -- vlock' was not very useful
without vlock -a, since that lets you switch back to your unlocked console.
> it would be nice if there was a way to lock only the ttys owned by
> that piticular user, i think that might not be easy to implement
> however...
that could be done reading the owners of the tty devices, like reading
the modified times could tell you which ones are idle.
>
> it would also be nice if i could lock the console while an
> intereactive program is running and still switch back to X and have a
> pretty screensaver <g> (yes i know about lockvc, it just segfaults
> when you enter any old password on my system :( )
Ahh, that's the program that I was looking for. Too bad about that
whole segfault thing. The bug report is only a week old, though ...
Rob
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