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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +0000, sajolida wrote:
> I'm part of the people working on Tails, a live distribution that aims
> at preserving privacy and anonymity: https://tails.boum.org/. Tails is
> currently lacking a screen locker and this has been a frequent feature
> request. See https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5684.
[...]
> 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).

At least for grml, that's wrong. grml-full ships vlock which can lock
all consoles (and switching back to X) at once with the option "-a".

I though don't know if it works from under X, but it works fine if you
switch to a text console first, e.g. with Ctrl-Alt-F1.

> What do you think? Please answer to tails-dev at boum.org and feel free to
> subscribe to the list to follow the thread:

Cc'ed, but didn't subscribe.

		Regards, Axel
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