On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:45:16AM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 May 2009, [email protected] wrote: > > > Mike Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Monday 04 May 2009, [email protected] wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > ? #!/bin/csh > > > > ? clear > > > > ? vidcontrol -C > > > > ? exec /usr/bin/login.real "$@" > > > > > > But this wouldn't prevent someone scrolling back with the scroll > > > lock key before logging in. I assume the OP's requirement is to > > > stop people from seeing previous users console activity. > > > > That's what the "vidcontrol -C" line is supposed to accomplish, > > based on my reading of vidcontrol(1) and earlier messages in the > > thread. Granted I have not actually tried it. > > Yes, "vidcontrol -C" will accomplish this, but my point was that > including this as part of the replacement login script is too late. You > don't need to be logged in to use the scroll lock and pg{Up,Dn} keys. > To prevent people seeing the previous users activity you would need to > clear the console buffer at the logout stage. >
I see what you mean. Perhaps put vidcontrol -C in /etc/csh.logout For other shells e.g ksh: alias logout='~/.ksh_logout; exit' (not tested) It seems that for sh, logout is a builtin but it's not mentioned in it's manpage. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
