Terminal locks (was Autologout of unused terminals)

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <2292 at cuuxb.ATT.COM>, dlm at cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes:
> Moral: terminal locking programs are NEVER [what never? no!
> never!] secure.

No kidding.  The 4.1BSD [I think] `lock' had a hardcoded magic
unlock password ("hasta la vista"), and ^Z would stop it as
well.

     Steve

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