[Grml-devel] Shared screen locking solution for live distributions in Debian

[Julien Jehannet]

2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov <evgeni at grml.org>:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +0000, sajolida wrote:
>
> > I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various
> > Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had
> > a real mechanism to do so. They either:
> >
> >   - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml,
> >     Jondo Live).
>
> Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before
> using it, obviously ;)
>

FYI, note that Debian disabled the --new switch in vlock which limit now
the desktop locking capability.

Here is what you can read in the NEWS file:
     vlock (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium
       This update disables the new.so plugin and thus the --new switch,
because it
       proved too hard to fix it properly. See #702705.

See also:
    Debian Bug report logs - #702705
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702705
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