Re: Locking a console session

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Hiho,

Ali Helmy wrote:
> On 23/04/06, *pcfe* <pcfe@xxxxxxxx <mailto:pcfe@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> When logged in to x-server [runlevel5] i can easily lock down the computer so
>> that any access requires the user to enter a password first, while still keeping
>> everything running in the background... Is there someway i can do that on
>> runlevel3? Lock the computer so that I can go away and be sure no one can do
>> anything without the password, and yet keep the procs ruunning in the background?
> 
>     My preferred way of doing this is screen. It's in FC core.
[...]
> what is screen?

Try these commands to learn more

# rpm -q screen || yum install screen
(this checks if screen is installed and if not it will install via yum)

# man screen
(gives you the manual page, alternatively use the menu System, Help,
Applications, screen (need to scroll down a fair bit in the list))

RU

PCFE
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