Terminal locking

[Shawn Badger]

Thanks to everybody for all your help!
Vlock is exactly what I was looking for.


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 15:26 -0700, Ryan Meldrum wrote:
> Shawn Badger wrote:
> > I need to find a way to lock a users terminal after a set period of
> > inactivity. It has to work regardless of how the user connects the
> > system. I know of the TMOUT variable, but I need it ask the user for
> > there password again to reconnect to the same session instead of just
> > closing the session. Any ideas on how to do this?
> >
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> You might want to try vlock.  This will lock console sessions as well as 
> telent/ssh sessions. 
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