Re: locking all terminals w/ a single command?

[Jeff Bachtel <sebastion@irelandmail.com>]

What he's talking about (from linux, vlock -a) is a utility similar to
the normal console lock(1), that locks all VT's the user is logged
into (so you don't have to check 1 through whatever and run lock
seperately).

Since the same user "owns" them, its not out of the unix permissions
paradigm, the main problem is writing an app that takes control of a
VT controlled by another pid.

jeff

On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:44:10PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:05:02PM +0900, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> > [...]
> 
> > is there a way to issue a single command to lock all terminals?
> > (something like vlock -a from linux would be nice...)  i'd like a solution
> > that doesn't require me to run x11.
> 
> Is there any reason to lock up all virtual consoles, especially including
> those you are *not* logged in into?
> 
> Un*x is a *multi* user system, and so I don't understand how a normal
> non-root user should be able to lock terminals (incl. virtual ones)
> not belonging to him/her.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Hannah.