From: duwe@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Duwe) Subject: Re: xlock is useless! Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 20:39:42 GMT
hank@Blimp (Hendrik G. Seliger) writes:
>There's this nice program called "xlock", which allows to lock an
>X-console while sleeping in some other corner to keep bad people from
>doing their job. The only problem under XFree1.2 is that it's still
>possible to switch VCs. Now if I startx on tty1, it is just as simple
>as pressing Alt-Ctrl-F1 followed by a Ctrl-C to stop X and get the
>users login-shell. No password required.
>I guess it's easy to see that I don't like this. Thus:
>Question: Does anyone know a workaround to also lock people from
>switching to other VCs (at least the one X has been started from)??
Do "exec startx" - this way you'll get logged out once X finishes.
Torsten