[2433] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Question about ^L for logout.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 3 00:08:33 2000
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:02:22 -0000."
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:03:24 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Where is ^L documented?
The man pages has:
maxIdleTime (class Time)
This is how many minutes th screensaver is allowed to run
before the password dialog box displays a prompt allowing an
arbitrary user to kill the running X session (default 20
minutes.)
The specific mechanism for killing the running X session is docuented
in the password dialog box.
> How is it supposed to work?
You press a key to bring up the password dialog, and then press ^L to
log out the user if it says you can do so.
> Any guess why it wasn't working for me on Linux Athena systems last
> week?
There are a number of possibilities (user was running something other
than xss, user had maxIdleTime disabled, screensaver hadn't been
running for twenty minutes yet, xss has a bug), but I don't have a
guess as to which is right.
