On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:12:01PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:39 PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:47:10PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | on Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:24:27PM -0500, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > | > | > Is there a way to lock all consoles except for 7? 'vlock -a' will | > | > lock all consoles, but then it prevents switching back to X. | > | | > | What's your goal? | > | > My goal is to login to a console and do some non-gui stuff. Then lock | > the console and walk away, but still allow X to be used. Sometimes I | > like to tail the mail logs in a console, and the only way to lock them | > (without killing the tail) is to lock all consoles. The problem then | > is that it is impossible to switch to vc7 and use X there. | | I'd do one of the following: | | - Disably gettys on VC 1-6 and restart init. | - Use an automated console session starter, and create /etc/nologin. | - Muck around with pam or such to disable all but root logins from | console, if I really needed to keep a getty running on console.
What I want is to remain logged in on the console, but prevent others from doing anything with it (while I am still logged in). I may just have to learn screen :-). -D -- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13