🚀 go-pugleaf

S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:

>>  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
>
>Rebooting is not the way of choice, I think...
>
>>  |> of "how long I've been locked".
>>  |> 
>>...  
>>  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.
>
>What about the following?
>
>A locking program that 
>- displays the time it is running,
>- after N minutes provides a button which will log the user out (with
>N preferrably to be specified in a configuration file),
>- perhaps communicates with other workstations in the cluster, to
>enable the logout only when no other workstation is idle.
>
>I leave the gory details of the implementation to the people who know
>X (that excludes me, unfortunately ;-)

Here at Melbourne Uni on one of the student machines, the lock command
has a default time-out of 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, lock terminates and drops back into your shell, leaving
your account wide open.

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