I find it useful to just run stuff in screen, then detach & logout when/if I need the machine secured. frees up the box for other people to use and at the same time keeps my process(s)( running. could leave for a month and they'd still be going:/
nate On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote: robm >On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:22:35PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: robm >> On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: robm >> robm >> >vlock' (which is not robm >> >really useful without the -a). robm >> robm >> which is annoying since -a is not very multiuser friendly, granted robm >> this is often not to big a problem since usually there is only one robm >> person at a time using the console. (or preferably only trusted robm >> users...) robm >> robm > robm >Sorry, what I meant was that 'openvt -sw -- vlock' was not very useful robm >without vlock -a, since that lets you switch back to your unlocked console. robm > robm >> it would be nice if there was a way to lock only the ttys owned by robm >> that piticular user, i think that might not be easy to implement robm >> however... robm > robm >that could be done reading the owners of the tty devices, like reading robm >the modified times could tell you which ones are idle. robm > robm >> robm >> it would also be nice if i could lock the console while an robm >> intereactive program is running and still switch back to X and have a robm >> pretty screensaver <g> (yes i know about lockvc, it just segfaults robm >> when you enter any old password on my system :( ) robm > robm >Ahh, that's the program that I was looking for. Too bad about that robm >whole segfault thing. The bug report is only a week old, though ... robm > robm >Rob robm > robm >-- robm >The more things change, the more they stay insane. robm > robm > robm >-- robm >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null robm > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:15am up 110 days, 18:59, 2 users, load average: 1.58, 1.54, 1.65
