* Julien Jehannet [Fri Jan 02, 2015 at 04:19:10PM +0100]:
> 2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov <evgeni@???>:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +0000, sajolida wrote:
> > > I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various
> > > Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had
> > > a real mechanism to do so. They either:
> > > - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml,
> > > Jondo Live).
> > Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before
> > using it, obviously ;)
grml-lock actually checks if a password is set and if that's not the
case then grml-lock prompts for setting one (to avoid locking
yourself out).
> FYI, note that Debian disabled the --new switch in vlock which limit now
> the desktop locking capability.
> Here is what you can read in the NEWS file:
> vlock (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium
> This update disables the new.so plugin and thus the --new switch,
> because it
> proved too hard to fix it properly. See #702705.
> See also:
> Debian Bug report logs - #702705
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702705
Meh, how sad. Thanks for the pointer, Julien.
regards,
-mika-
