Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)

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From: Olaf Titz
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:29

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In <9225518.22142@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU writes:

>  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.

You could as well have not mentioned that it was a *student* machine
;-)

Of course 'real' users would never accept such a security hole...
(Then I would prefer the automatic logout after 15 minutes...)

MfG,
        Olaf
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From: S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
Subject: Re: Locking terminals (was Re: New Princeton Policy)
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