Lock Your Terminal Sessions With Vlock DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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SylvesterInk
It's generally not recommended to lock all tty's, unless you are logged into several at once. Since an intruder would have to log in with a password either way, it's redundant, and it does limit use by other valid users. (Sure, if you're using Linux for a personal desktop, it's likely you don't want anyone other than yourself logging in, but it's still otherwise redundant.)
As for myself, while I have vlock installed, in case I ever need to use it, more often than not if I'm using the tty extensively enough that I'd need to preserve my session, I tend to have it running in screen/tmux, so I just detach and log out instead.
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It's generally not recommended to lock all tty's, unless you are logged into several at once. Since an intruder would have to log in with a password either way, it's redundant, and it does limit use by other valid users. (Sure, if you're using Linux for a personal desktop, it's likely you don't want anyone other than yourself logging in, but it's still otherwise redundant.)
As for myself, while I have vlock installed, in case I ever need to use it, more often than not if I'm using the tty extensively enough that I'd need to preserve my session, I tend to have it running in screen/tmux, so I just detach and log out instead.
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Vlad
Thank you for the video and it sounds like it is a neat utility, but I cannot imagine why I would need one. On a local machine I can lock the entire g-session and be done with it. On a remote machine I would use the good old GNU Screen which allows to keep all sessions password protected, and that password doesn-t have to be your login one. Even a remote root user would have to bring a heavy artillery to unlock the session, which is a big plus. Some people just keep inventing bicycles over and over again.
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Thank you for the video and it sounds like it is a neat utility, but I cannot imagine why I would need one. On a local machine I can lock the entire g-session and be done with it. On a remote machine I would use the good old GNU Screen which allows to keep all sessions password protected, and that password doesn-t have to be your login one. Even a remote root user would have to bring a heavy artillery to unlock the session, which is a big plus. Some people just keep inventing bicycles over and over again.
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Terry
A completely pointless application - are we saying that the reason to lock a specific tty is because when you have multiple ones open on your PC, you only need to lock SOME of them? But you don't mind someone messing around in -less important ones-?
-slock- - just lock the entire PC and enter your password when you get back from that pee break or coffee break. You're welcome.
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A completely pointless application - are we saying that the reason to lock a specific tty is because when you have multiple ones open on your PC, you only need to lock SOME of them? But you don't mind someone messing around in -less important ones-?
-slock- - just lock the entire PC and enter your password when you get back from that pee break or coffee break. You're welcome.
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Bencze
It's refreshing that some things still work. Used to use it in college years in the 90s. I would be curious who the hell doesn't use graphical ui nowadays that needs this. If you want to lock a server console you still use your client computer. I just use i3lock with the blurring of a screenshot of the actual screen.
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It's refreshing that some things still work. Used to use it in college years in the 90s. I would be curious who the hell doesn't use graphical ui nowadays that needs this. If you want to lock a server console you still use your client computer. I just use i3lock with the blurring of a screenshot of the actual screen.
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aayush
Hey dude, I'm a second year compsci student and just wanted to extend some gratitude for your videos. I learn an immense amount each time. You seem to cover everything uni doesn't, from realising Emacs needs to be run in a client server relationship to configuring my arch install correctly.
Thank you.
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Hey dude, I'm a second year compsci student and just wanted to extend some gratitude for your videos. I learn an immense amount each time. You seem to cover everything uni doesn't, from realising Emacs needs to be run in a client server relationship to configuring my arch install correctly.
Thank you.
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Phone
I've been using slock for a while and swear by it, the blur-pixelated patch basically makes it so I don't have to be OCD about theming it, the desktop wallpaper being capped and blurred IS the theme. Anyways I just installed vlock out of virtue of security, thanks for the heads up!
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I've been using slock for a while and swear by it, the blur-pixelated patch basically makes it so I don't have to be OCD about theming it, the desktop wallpaper being capped and blurred IS the theme. Anyways I just installed vlock out of virtue of security, thanks for the heads up!
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Mohammad
Real sysadmin uses screen multiplexer such as GNU SCreen or tmux. IMHO. Just detach current session and logout. Example in GNU Screen..
Ctrl-a d Ctrl-d
Thank you.
p/s GNuScreen also has session lock to..
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Real sysadmin uses screen multiplexer such as GNU SCreen or tmux. IMHO. Just detach current session and logout. Example in GNU Screen..
Ctrl-a d Ctrl-d
Thank you.
p/s GNuScreen also has session lock to..
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Adithya
best lock screen:
unlocked tiling WM session with no panel or bar, no wallpaper, just a black screen and a cursor that seems to do nothing.
works best with windows users.
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best lock screen:
unlocked tiling WM session with no panel or bar, no wallpaper, just a black screen and a cursor that seems to do nothing.
works best with windows users.
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Sri
In my server, I just use tmux. Whenever I login via SSH I attach that tmux session and it keeps on running. My current tmux session is 2 months old!
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In my server, I just use tmux. Whenever I login via SSH I attach that tmux session and it keeps on running. My current tmux session is 2 months old!
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amir
Hey, before you go, please make a video about midnight bsd or ghost bsd (based on freebsd) and check if it can be used as a daily driver, thanks.
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Hey, before you go, please make a video about midnight bsd or ghost bsd (based on freebsd) and check if it can be used as a daily driver, thanks.
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