Autologout of unused terminals

[Dennis L. Mumaugh]

In article <3603 at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>Not only that, but idle-killers are so easy to spoof, unless you disable
>people from executing utime() or ioctl().
>

Try the following short script:

	while :
	do
		touch `tty`
		sleep 600
	done &

Other more sophisticated scripts can be done.  Most shells have a
time  out  but  that can be eliminated by people getting into the
habit of hitting <RETURN> once in a while.

The neatest special program is the  630MTG  program  dmdlock.  If
the  terminal  has  no  user  activity - mouse or keyboard - in a
given time period, the terminal locks itself and 15 minutes later
the  screen  blanks.  One has to then unlock the terminal.  Hence
walking  away  from  the  630MTG  results  in  auto-locking   the
terminal.

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=Dennis L. Mumaugh
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