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 -- The more things change, the more they stay insane.
