Re: vlock command

Karel Zak
2012-11-14T12:22:11Z

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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