xyb3rt/physlock

Lock each VT separately

jluttine opened this issue · 1 comments

jluttine commented

Thanks for this great physlock! I experimented with a bit and wanted share my minor thought.

Would it be a good idea to lock each VT separately? That is, when the screen is locked, each VT is locked based on the user in that VT (or not locked if there was no user). Currently, if I suspend in VT without logged in user, nothing gets locked because physlock cannot detect a user. I see this as a problem. Instead, it could wake up without asking for a password, but when trying to switch to a VT with a logged in user, it'd ask for the password. This would lead to giving the password in each VT after screen locking, but I don't think that'd be an issue. I actually think it'd be ok. Does this make sense?

xyb3rt commented

This is out of the scope of physlock. vlock(1) can lock individual ttys, maybe you're able to combine this with the lock-sessions command of systemd's loginctl(1)