Re: locking idle text consoles
"jathan." <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.linux |
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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 > -- jathan. 00bliss.dj.switchstance www.00bliss.com 571.243.2788 --