From: Bas de Bakker (bas@phys.uva.nl)
Date: 04/01/93


From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker)
Subject: Re: xlock is useless!
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 18:44:13 GMT


>>>>> On Thu, 01 Apr 1993 09:19:19 GMT, hank@Blimp (Hendrik G. Seliger) said:

hgs> Question: Does anyone know a workaround to also lock people from
hgs> switching to other VCs (at least the one X has been started from)??

How about:

% nohup startx > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Ctrl-Alt-F1
% logout
Ctrl-Alt-F8
xlock

or something like that. (Whether the nohup is needed will depend on
the shell.)

Bas.