Bug 170488 - "screen" support would be good
Summary: "screen" support would be good
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vlock
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Karel Zak
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-12 10:10 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-10-14 12:19:20 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2005-10-12 10:10:52 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Epiphany/1.6.5

Description of problem:
vlock -a does not lock all screens, i.e. ^a^n will move to the password unprotected screen.

It would be nice if vlock warned users that it was running from within screen (screen has it's own locking function).

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Karel Zak 2005-10-13 10:00:41 UTC
  *** This tty is not a VC (virtual console). ***
  *** It may not be securely locked. ***

  This TTY is now locked.
  Please enter the password to unlock.
  root's Password:

Do you think that the sentence "It may not be securely locked." is not enough?
Well, I can add there some next extra message like "You're probably runnig
screen(1). Please, check screen documentation for correct locking.". But I think
the the actual warning is almost enough.


Comment 2 Need Real Name 2005-10-13 16:27:47 UTC
The message "it may not be securely locked" shows when you try to lock a virtual
console, but the docs say this message appears because virtual console locking
has been given less testing than real console locking.

When I run vlock from inside screen, the console is *definitely* not securely
locked - I can run ^AC to create a new console.

A screen specific warning would be good I think.

Comment 3 Karel Zak 2005-10-14 12:19:20 UTC
Done. Update to vlock-1.3-22.

Comment 4 Karel Zak 2005-10-14 12:20:22 UTC
Note that fixed in the development branch (FC5).

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2005-10-14 12:26:44 UTC
Thanks!


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