Re: locking idle text consoles

"jathan." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ever tried vlock?


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:26:47 +0200, Cristian Grigoriu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I wonder if it's possible to lock out idle text consoles. The intended
> behaviour would be the same as a screensaver's in X Windows environment.
> 
> Unfortunately $TMOUT doesn't help here. First, it closes the session by
> logging out the user, second it counts screen updates as activity and
> last it could be easily circumvented by a user launching another shell.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Grig
> 


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