From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: xlock is useless! Date: 2 Apr 1993 18:02:04 GMT
Hendrik G. Seliger (hank@Blimp) wrote:
: 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)??
(x)man xdm ???