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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

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