locking a grml box

Wednesday, March 2. 2005

I was thinking of a reliable way to lock a grml box. Logging out is not possible due to the respawn-feature of init.

The solution is to run 'passwd && vlock -a'. This sets a password for the current user (which is disabled by default for security reasons) and then locks the current console and disables switching to other consoles.

several updates + kernel 2.6.11

Wednesday, March 2. 2005

Martin sent me his script grml-pptp-xdsl-students (thanks!), I updated grml-muttng, Christoph Wegscheider sent me a fix for szs (statusbar for WMI), several updates in grml-etc and finally Jimmy and me fixed grml2hd (thanks, Jimmy!). Now I'll do some more testing. 0.3 is coming closer! :)

BTW: Kernel 2.6.11 is available. This means that as soon as we release grml 0.3 I'll start working at the kernel. If you want to see any (special) patches inside grml-kernel please let me know!