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From: der Mouse  <convex!shamash.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse>
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To: pmullman@phoenix.princeton.edu
Subject: Re: Idle terminal logout daemons.
Cc: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu

>> I was looking for a screen auto-lock - a screen blanker that
>> required the password to unblank.  Has anyone heard of such a thing?

> I don't know about X windows, but on Sunview, there's a program we
> use called lockscreen that does just that: it blanks and locks the
> screen and requires the user's password before returning you to the
> screen in the exact state it would have been in if you had just left
> your terminal and nobody had touched it.

That's not what he wanted, quite: he wanted a program like that but
which activated itself automatically after some (presumably
configurable) amount of idle time.  As far as I can tell, lockscreen
must be explicitly invoked - it can't be started once and kick in
automatically after some idle interval.

					der Mouse

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