On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:08:53PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:46:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> > I don't use X much and instead use lots of Virtual Terminals.

> >

> > Since I'm on dialup, sometimes I need to leave multiple VTs open to do

> > things, perhaps downloading something, or its just that I'm in the

> > middle of things.

> >

> > How can I lock the whole virtual termial setup?  lock(1) only lets me

> > lock the one VT without blocking the ability to switch to others.  On

> > Debian, there's vlock -a that does this.  I don't see anything similar

> > in the available packages for OBSD.

> >

> > I can't read code so I don't know how lock(1) works internally.  To get

> > it to lock everything, I guess it would have to capture the Alt-Fn key

> > combo.  However, the OS (wscons(4)?) likely captures that before the

> > keys get passed on to the application.  So I'm sorry, I can't provide a

> > patch.

>

> Switch to GNU screen? You get the locking you desire, and lots of other

> neat stuff thrown in for free.

>

> I do believe lock(1) doesn't really work in this case; I don't know if

> it could be made to work, but since I always use screen I don't really

> care.

I tried Screen on Debian briefly.  I'm not good at remembering magic

keystrokes.  If necessary, I'll try again.  However, since I'm trying to

get used to the OBSD way of doing things, and since this seemed like a

security issue, I wanted to see how to solve this using what is in OBSD

base.  
Thanks,
Doug.