Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!att!cuuxb!dlm
From: dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals
Summary: spoof of auto-logout
Message-ID: <2255@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 88 22:18:45 GMT
References: <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> <8978@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2682@sultra.UUCP> <9012@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3603@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Organization: ATT Data Systems Group, Lisle, Ill.
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In article <3603@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>Not only that, but idle-killers are so easy to spoof, unless you disable
>people from executing utime() or ioctl().
>

Try the following short script:

	while :
	do
		touch `tty`
		sleep 600
	done &

Other more sophisticated scripts can be done.  Most shells have a
time  out  but  that can be eliminated by people getting into the
habit of hitting  once in a while.

The neatest special program is the  630MTG  program  dmdlock.  If
the  terminal  has  no  user  activity - mouse or keyboard - in a
given time period, the terminal locks itself and 15 minutes later
the  screen  blanks.  One has to then unlock the terminal.  Hence
walking  away  from  the  630MTG  results  in  auto-locking   the
terminal.

-- 
=Dennis L. Mumaugh
 Lisle, IL       ...!{att,lll-crg}!cuuxb!dlm  OR cuuxb!dlm@arpa.att.com