Lock your terminal for lunch

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <131 at pyuxv.UUCP>, cim1 at pyuxv.UUCP (G. Bogatko) writes:
># Munch, Munch
>#This is a great way to lock up your terminal without having to log off.
>trap 'echo "PISS OFF"' 1 2 3 6 15
>clear
>echo "
>
>I won't work now.  My massa has gon 'way.  Don't even try.
>
>"
>stty -echo
>while true
>do
>	read ans
>	case $ans in
># rewrite this line -- replace 'password' with YOUR password
>	password)	clear
>			stty echo
>			exit ;;
>	*)		echo "PISS OFF";;
>	esac
>done
>#from Rob Fair and George Bogatko

O.K. I'm game.

I tried this, then held the DELETE key down.
Results?

PISS OFF
PISS OFF
PISPISS OP
PISPPP$
$
$
$

The system was a 3B20S running Unix 5.2, under the Bourne shell.
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