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From: Dan Peck <peckdani@msu.edu>
To: Colin Harford <colin.harford@mail.su.ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Locking the screen
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If your looking for an X based program, xscreensaver
(/usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver) has a locking option.
On the console, I've just installed vlock (/usr/ports/security/vlock),
it seems to work well :)

-Dan

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:52:19AM -0700, Colin Harford wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone knows of a program that can be used to lock the
> screen so it requires a password to be used again, without having to log
> out.
> 
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> Preferably something that works in xfree86.
> 
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