Re: vlock command

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:04:56PM +0400, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> 14.11.2012 14:35, Karel Zak wrote:
> > 
> >  vlock(1) - Virtual Console lock program
> > 
> > This nice and small program used by admins on machines with consoles
> > only. Unfortunately it has inactive upstream(s).
> > 
> > The original upstream for vlock-1.3 at
> > 
> >     ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/
> > 
> > is inactive for years. There is also new upstream at
> > 
> >    http://freecode.com/projects/vlock
> >    http://repo.or.cz/w/vlock.git
> > 
> > but this also seems inactive and from my point of view vlock-2.x is
> > over-engineering rhapsody (glib, plug-ins, dependences resolver,
> > external scripts etc.)
> > 
> > What about to merge vlock-1.3 into utils-linux? It's 630 lines of code
> > (including unnecessary non-PAM code).
> > 
> > Comments & Objections?
> > 
> 
> We have another version of vlock, which is being supported by Dmitry
> V. Levin.
> 
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/vlock.git

 it seems the same code as the original vlock-1.3

> Some time ago, I have merged this version in kbd project:
> 
> http://git.altlinux.org/people/legion/packages/kbd.git?p=kbd.git;a=tree;f=src/vlock;h=92419b98175d215a71f83bfb06b409daa97b13c4;hb=768b8c314e1d3c465d895b206da4aa4543914d1d
> 
> I have a collection of utilities for manipulation in console (openvt,
> chvt, deallocvt ...) I consider logical to have the utility for
> terminal blocking.
> 
> What do you think?

 Well, vlock is mostly about authentication, but I have no strong
 opinion about it -- we can keep it in kbd as well.

    Karel

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