Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!David Parter From: david@wisc-rsch.arpa (David Parter) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Alternate Shells Message-ID: <275@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 23:02:20 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.275 Posted: Mon Aug 26 23:02:20 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Aug-85 08:25:27 EDT References: <49600007@convexs> <10672@Glacier.ARPA> Sender: david@uwvax.UUCP Organization: UWisc Systems Lab Lines: 21 > Next joke, please. Suffice it to say that "lock" isn't nearly as > secure as it might lead you to believe. This probably isn't the > place to go into the details of why, but I wouldn't trust the > standard "lock" to protect anything I valued. > Doug Hosking possible solutions: 1) don't leave your terminal (logged in) alone. 2) fix lock, if you need a secure locking mechanism for yourself or your users. We have made some fixes to it. david -- david parter UWisc Systems Lab uucp: ...!{allegra,harvard,ihnp4,seismo, topaz}!uwvax!david arpa now: david@wisc-rsch.arpa arpa soon: david@wisc-rsch.WISCONSIN.EDU or something like that