linux-kernel - Re: design of screen-locks for text-mode sessions

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Date:	Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:01:34 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Travis H." <solinym@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: design of screen-locks for text-mode sessions

>
> This may diverge away from kernelspace, and if so I'll take the discussion
> off-list with interested parties.  In the meantime, I was wondering what people
> thought about the best design for locking text-mode console sessions.  It's a
> checkbox on some regulatory compliance list, I think for the PCI specs (that's
> credit cards, not the bus) and I'm sort of surprised there isn't an
> easy-to-find
> package for this.

screen. Start it. Hit ^A^X. Does not support autolocking though.

> Am I correct in assuming that login execs the shell, as opposed to
> hanging around
> after authentication?

Login waits for its subprocess to terminate. However, not every 'system' 
uses login, e.g. ssh.


Jan Engelhardt
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