Re: Locking screen

[Will Maier]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:25:01PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> It was my assumption that the "password" is not called on an unlock, just 
> on a reattach.  Is there a way to have it use a single password?  (I don't 
> care if there are two different passwords, one for unlock and one for 
> reattach).

It seems that screen considers these events one and the same -- the manual on
lockscreen:

"Meanwhile processes in the windows may continue, as the windows are in the
`detached' state."

A locked screen is, essentially, a detached screen, hence the double prompt.
That said, could you not write/modify a screen locker to read the crypted
password in your screenrc (instead of /etc/passwd)? This would mean one password
(although there still would be two prompts).


Will Maier