Terminal locking

[Shawn Badger]

It looks like Idled would work except it still kicks the user off. I am
looking for something that works like xscreensaver within a terminal and
prompt for a password after an idle timeout.


On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:47 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 18. Oct, 2005 schwätzte Shawn Badger so:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> There used to be an idled, but I don't see it now in the debian packages.
> 
> I do, however, see autolog and timeoutd.
> 
> Description: Terminates connections for idle users
> 
> Description: Flexible user timeout daemon with X11 support
> 
> People can easily reset TMOUT, so that really doesn't buy you anything.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans