* Julien Jehannet [Fri Jan 02, 2015 at 04:19:10PM +0100]:
2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov evgeni@grml.org:
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-