Re: lock all consoles except for 7

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:12:01PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:39 PM -0500, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
| > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:47:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| > | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:24:27PM -0500, dman (dsh8290@rit.edu) wrote:
| > | > 
| > | > Is there a way to lock all consoles except for 7?  'vlock -a' will
| > | > lock all consoles, but then it prevents switching back to X.
| > | 
| > | What's your goal?
| > 
| > My goal is to login to a console and do some non-gui stuff.  Then lock
| > the console and walk away, but still allow X to be used.  Sometimes I
| > like to tail the mail logs in a console, and the only way to lock them
| > (without killing the tail) is to lock all consoles.  The problem then
| > is that it is impossible to switch to vc7 and use X there.
| 
| I'd do one of the following:
| 
|   - Disably gettys on VC 1-6 and restart init.
|   - Use an automated console session starter, and create /etc/nologin.
|   - Muck around with pam or such to disable all but root logins from
|     console, if I really needed to keep a getty running on console.

What I want is to remain logged in on the console, but prevent others
from doing anything with it (while I am still logged in).

I may just have to learn screen :-).

-D

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