protect console

himpierre · l33t Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 867 Location: Berlin

Hello

I wish to protect the console in which i emerge a program. I think its not a good idea to do an "emerge kde" and go home. If someone at work reaches my computer and emerge of kde is comleted, he has full root access. Is there a "screensaver" with password protection for the console?

thanks and regards
Thomas

MezzUp · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 7:33 pm Post subject:

You could do something like put the process in the background, to put a proccess in the background there are two ways:
#1. put a " &" (a space and a "and" symbol) at the end of the command, so you could just run:

jt42 · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 8:12 pm Post subject:

nohup emerge kde > emerge-kde.log 2>&1 &

runs the job in the background in a way thats immune to hangups (logouts) and saves the output to emerge-kde.log

-john
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himpierre · l33t Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 867 Location: Berlin

Thanks for your answers. I know about the foreground and background and nohup stuff. But i was hoping there is a console screensaver with password protection. Anyway, nohup will do job.

regards
Thomas

nbensa · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 4:38 am Post subject:

screen has a password option.

gigel · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 370 Location: .se/.ro

infirit · Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 2:39 pm Post subject:

Emerge vlock, start your merge of kde on your first terminal(not in X). Login as root on your second and type the following