[4137] in testers
Re: xss is special
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Thu May 27 11:53:29 1999
Message-Id: <199905271553.PAA23576@antharia.mit.edu>
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 18:20:03 EDT."
<199905202220.SAA01344@x15-cruise-basselope.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:53:20 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> I wanted to log out someone who had been idle for a while. xss said
> "Press Control-L to log out.". I Hit control-L. Nothing happened.
> Then I realized, this person used dvorak.
...
> A good solution would be to have a "Click me to log out." thingy.
Adding a button there would be tricky.
An easier kludge might be to change it to "Type `logout' to log out."
and have it accept both "logout" and "nrirgy" and assume no one is
using any wackier layout. :-)
-- Dan