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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: A real hack way to "lock my tty"
Message-ID: <5025@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 20:53:45 GMT
References: <2863@litchi.bbn.com>
Reply-To: jls@headland.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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In article <2863@litchi.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>This only works in C-shell derivatives.  Type "goto <SomePassword>" and
>then enough blank lines to clear the screen.
>
>When you come back, type "<SomePassword>:" and RETURN.

Out of curiosity, what's to keep someone from just coming along and typing
a ^D to get them out of this?  A ^D will cause an end to the current input,
and make it say "<SomePassword>: label not found."  (Then leaving the
shell wide open for someone to rm -r *.)
-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
UUCP: ames!vsi1!headland!jls
ARPA: jls%headland.UUCP@ames.nasa.arc.gov