[18434] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.12: xlock
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Oct 19 19:14:23 2000
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:14:20 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200010192314.TAA19381@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
To: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18287] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
> What's wrong:
> On public workstations, /usr/athena/bin/xlock prints a message
> saying,
>
> If you really wish to run xlock, run it as 'xlock.real' instead.
> But if you do so, others may legitimately reboot the machine at
> any time to log you out.
>
> This message leads users to naively and blindly run 'xlock.real',
> since it's general knowledge that you use 'xlock' to lock the X
> display on Unixish workstations.
This was fixed in the Athena patch release 8.4.13. xlock will now
simply do the correct thing with xss, which is the approved way to
lock an Athena machine these days. I'm going to close your bug report
now, but thanks for taking the time to submit it.
--
Jonathon
