Date: 17 Jan 1997 16:14:54 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: patch to lock(1) Message-ID: <853517694.662612@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <Mutt.19970112174043.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>
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In article <Mutt.19970112190102.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > 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. Perhaps add an attribute to /etc/login.conf now that we have it.. -Peter
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