Re: locking all terminals w/ a single command?

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From: Matthew Weigel <Matthew_Weigel@ursa-minor.fac.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: locking all terminals w/ a single command? 
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 01:24:02 -0500
Message-ID: <200011070624.eA76OYe14663@openbsd.cs.colorado.edu>

> > i want to be able to walk away from my system for a few minutes w/o
> > having to switch among all virtual terminals and run lock on all of
> > them separately.
>
> This is not meant to be patronizing, but have you looked at using
> screen?  

thanks for the suggestion, but we went over this earlier in the
thread.

> It supports a locking feature which supports locking all the
> screens (using lock, no less!).  I realize it will be a bit different
> from virtual terminals, but it is also much more powerful!  

that's actually part of the problem for me -- i don't want all the
extra stuff available.  it was hard to avoid using all the features
when i was still a screen user ;-)

> You'll have to get it out of ports, though (or out of packages, since
> it's widely enough used to be precompiled for most architectures) --
> misc/screen.

another problem for me is that it's a port/package.  if it became part
of openbsd itself, i would feel much better about using it, but even
then, i am not so sure.