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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
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