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In <1992Sep12.024831.8616@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu writes:

>  We considered a similar hack to xlock -- but decided that it would take
>  about a day for some student to ftp and compile a virgin copy and about
>  another day for it to find its way to all the usual xlock abusers.

But maybe it is possible to hack the program that controls user login,
e.g. xdm to count idle time and log the user out after N minutes of no
action. The trick is that the user cannot replace this program as it is
run by root.

>  For now, we just tell people to feel free to reboot if the workstation
>  has been xlocked 15 minutes.

Sub-sub-optimal either, IMHO...


MfG,
        Olaf
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