[Linux-disciples] Virtual consoles

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Sun Nov 20 11:30:02 EST 2005


On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 11:24:08AM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> 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.

Regular users wouldn't want to switch to another console
from which they could log in? Seems like a legitimate thing
to allow users to do.

Unrelatedly, I ought to flip through this book

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsckbk/

the next time I'm in Reiter's

http://www.reiters.com/ . Seems like it might have some
interesting material.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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