Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:41:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch to lock(1) Message-ID: <199701121941.MAA26071@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112190102.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 12, 97 07:01:02 pm
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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. > > 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. Plus you could just type in the root password to unlock the thing... Heh... now where's my private password logging version of "lock"... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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