Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:01:02 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch to lock(1) Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112190102.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112174043.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>; from Philippe Regnauld on Jan 12, 1997 17:40:43 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970112174043.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>
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As Philippe Regnauld wrote: > 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. That's not the right way to go. If you want such a functionality, you also need to make the max value configurable in some way, e.g. via a file in /etc. I tend to say that this is rather a kind of `local hack' without much general demand for it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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