lockvc(1)
NAME
LockVC -- vga console-locking-program.
SYNOPSIS
lockvc
Start lockvc -help to get a complete list of options.
DESCRIPTION
- You're familiar with the situation: You leave your comput
- er alone to get a bottle of the world's most famous soft drink,
- and when you come back, your terminal's taken, your data's lost,
- your resources destroyed, and the system's admin is asking you
- about those postings you've made on alt.binaries.pictures.eroti
- ca. Now it is too late to be sorry. You should have known bet
- ter: This happened a thousand times before. Until now...
- LockVC is a console-locking-program combined with some
- nifty vga-screensavers. The version at this date (July 2001) is
- 4.0.5. Executing LockVC on a virtual console brings up a random
- ly chosen vga-screensaver (that doesn't really save your screen,
- though). To select a screensaver, run lockvc -help for a com
- plete list.
- All virtual consoles get locked, i.e. you cannot change to
- another VC and you can't stop the program by pressing any key
- combos (apart from ctrl-alt-delete, if not disabled by your ad
- min). You can only exit the program by entering your system
- password. Root's password will also terminate lockvc. The
- amount of time, that the VCs can be locked may be limited by your
- system's admin. This will be displayed on executing lockvc. If
- you fail to exit lockvc within this time, lockvc will terminate
- all your processes and log you out.
- Lockvc can run as a daemon to lock the console if it goes
- idle. Details are in the /usr/share/doc/lockvc/README.gz
- Svgalib is required on your system and lockvc has to be
- run with root-privileges. To make the program available to any
- users, lockvc is installed setuid by default. Use
- dpkg-statoverride(8) if you want to change this. Only standard
- vga-modes are used. This should work on any reasonable machine.
AUTHORS
- LockVC was written by Matthias Straub, University of
- Karlsruhe, Germany (s_straub@ira.uka.de).
- Shadow Password Support and Man Page added by Eddie Beau
- mont (Morlok) (morlok@abyss.apana.org.au).
- PAM Support and daemon option added by Lawson Whitney
- (whitnl73@juno.com).
BUGS
- LockVC eats up all cpu-time :(
- (c) 1994,1995,1997. Matthias Straub.