🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <CKD.92Sep9143724@loiosh.eff.org>, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
|>  Olaf> This means: 'If you must go to the restroom you HAVE to leave the
|>  Olaf> terminal open, so that other users can terminate your session if
|>  Olaf> they need the machine.' This is IMO simply unacceptable. Other
|>  Olaf> policies would REQUIRE to lock the terminal to prevent tampering
|>  Olaf> with your account.
|> 
|> MIT's Athena workstation policy is that you can lock it for no more than
|> 20 minutes before someone can feel free to reboot it or otherwise
|> "forcibly unlock" it.  The "standard" screenlocker has a displayed timer
|> of "how long I've been locked".
|> 
|> Perhaps Princeton could provide a similar one with a button (cleaner
|> than a reboot, especially since MIT Athena workstation can't have rlogin
|> users ;-) that would only appear after N minutes, saying "break lock and
|> kill X server".  This would protect accounts while keeping workstation
|> resources available.

At Rice, we have an X windows lockscreen program with a twenty minute
timer.  After twenty minutes, the lockscreen itself logs the user out.
The logout is pretty clean.  The only thing we haven't solved yet is
how to get the user's .logout file to be read on logout by the
lockscreen program.

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