[Linux-disciples] Virtual consoles

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>> There should be a way to lock the user into the X console. If you disable
>> ctrl-alt switching, that will do it. It could be, for example, if you have
>> the X console running as a nonprivileged user (say, a kiosk) and don't want
>> someone to be able to sign in as anyone else.
> If you're saying that it *should* be possible to do such
> locking, I agree with you. I thought your point was that
> console switching should be locked by default.

Well, maybe that's my point. It should be possible do such locking, and the
way you do it is by turning off ctrl-alt-function switch. I guess you could
argue for either default in terms of the command line switch, but having the
default be root-only seems sensible to me.

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