>
> This may diverge away from kernelspace, and if so I'll take the discussion
> off-list with interested parties. In the meantime, I was wondering what people
> thought about the best design for locking text-mode console sessions. It's a
> checkbox on some regulatory compliance list, I think for the PCI specs (that's
> credit cards, not the bus) and I'm sort of surprised there isn't an
> easy-to-find
> package for this.
screen. Start it. Hit ^A^X. Does not support autolocking though.
> Am I correct in assuming that login execs the shell, as opposed to
> hanging around
> after authentication?
Login waits for its subprocess to terminate. However, not every 'system'
uses login, e.g. ssh.
Jan Engelhardt
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