On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 03:12:50PM +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote: > Aaron Zang wrote: > >If a person is ever allowed to access the local console, he/she > >should be trusted to behave properly. Virtual consoles could solve > >by some degree the situation that a person *accidentally* locked > >several of the available virtual consoles, the system administrator > >could login via one of the rest of the available consoles and deal > >with the mess. But if all the available virtual consoles are locked > >out, what should be blamed is the management of physical access to > >the local consoles. > > All very reasonable for a server-class system. Totally useless for a > single-monitor, single keyboard system in a student environment.
In such an environment the sysadmin can surely remotely remove the lock.
