Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:40:43 +0100 From: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org (Philippe Regnauld) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: patch to lock(1) Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112174043.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>
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I got sick of people locking terminals for 3 hours and not coming back :-)
I made two simple patches to lock(1) so that the user cannot lock the
terminal more than 1 hour unless he's root.
--- lock.c.orig Sun Sep 22 00:49:20 1996
+++ lock.c Sun Sep 22 00:49:33 1996
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
#include <string.h>
#define TIMEOUT 15
+#define MAXLOCK 60
void quit(), bye(), hi();
@@ -95,7 +96,8 @@
while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "npt:")) != EOF)
switch((char)ch) {
case 't':
- if ((sectimeout = atoi(optarg)) <= 0) {
+ if (((sectimeout = atoi(optarg)) <= 0) ||
+ ((getuid()!=0) && (atoi(optarg) > MAXLOCK))) {
(void)fprintf(stderr,
"lock: illegal timeout value.\n");
exit(1);
--- lock.1.orig Sun Sep 22 00:49:20 1996
+++ lock.1 Sun Sep 22 00:49:33 1996
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@
.It Fl t Ar timeout
The time limit (default 15 minutes) is changed to
.Ar timeout
-minutes.
+minutes. Note that if the user is not root (uid 0), then the maximum
+timeout is fixed to 60 minutes.
.El
.Sh HISTORY
The
--
-- Phil
-[ Philippe Regnauld / regnauld@eu.org / +55.4N +11.3E @ Sol3 / +45 31241690 ]-
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