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Re: [Patch] virtual consoles switching disabling
From: Nick Guenther (kousue
gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 10:25:53 CST
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On 2/15/06, Alexey Vatchenko <avvmail.zp.ua> wrote:
> Hannah Schroeter wrote:
> > Frankly I see not much sense in this whole thing at all. Root can
> > disable logins, and besides that, why shouldn't authorized users be able
> > to login?
>
> It's useful when you are logged in on several consoles and don't want to
> lock(1) (or xlock) each console... Now you have to `lock -pn` on every
> console.
Just a thought then: why not add this ability to lock(1) (e.g. lock -n
-a)? I don't know enough about the code to know if you could add it
without . Of course, it should only lock the consoles owned by the
current user (or all if the user is root).
-Kousu
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