vlock-current

Langue: en

Version: 66558 (mandriva - 22/10/07)

Section: 8 (Commandes administrateur)

NAME

vlock-current - lock current virtual console

SYNOPSIS

vlock-current

DESCRIPTION

vlock-current is part of vlock(1), the Virtual Console locking program for Linux. Once started it only exits if correct authentification data (either the current user's or root's) is received. Authentification can be done against PAM or shadow, determined at compile time.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

USER
When vlock-current is run as root (uid 0) and this environment variable is set vlock-current works the same as if it was run by that user.

VLOCK_MESSAGE

When this environment variable is set vlock-current prints its contents before each password prompt.

EXIT CODES

vlock-current exits 111 when the username can not be determined.

SIGNALS

SIGINT, SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, and SIGTSTP are ignored ignored. In case vlock-current is killed by any other signal the terminal is not restored.

SEE ALSO

vlock(1)

AUTHORS

Frank Benkstein <frank-vlock@benkstein.net>