Bigger annoyance with locking.

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

I am on a system at work where all our passwords are kerberized, and the 
password field in my account is "*"  Thus, when locking screen, it asks 
for a key.

Now, interestingly enough, it would be rather trivial for a locked screen 
to use its internal locking tool, and just use the password I've set in my 
.screenrc, but it's "hard" to pass a crypted password to the non-builtin. 
It can prompt twice for a non-crypted password, but that really defeats 
idle-locking.

According to the manpage, screen calls /bin/lock or whatnot -- there's no 
way through .screenrc to change this (why?)...and yet the output of a 
locked screen looks significantly different from when I use lock alone.

Any ideas on this one?

-Dan

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-SK, 6/2/99, 4:30 AM

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