Subject: Keyboard locking in 3.87

From: Ken Weaverling <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 10:14:32 -0400 (EDT)

Unfortunately, I personally wish the login password was still used for
keyboard locking instead of asking the user to type the password in. I
have already had someone forget the password they used.  I guess this is
to eventually make it compatible with DOS platform, but I hate bringing
this to the lowest common denominator.

At least, if you have to have users enter the password, have them do it
twice to check for typos.  (Of course, maybe they will just enter it once
and leave, which will basically make the computer not secure if it is left
prompting for confirmation of password.)

I also miss the screen showing disk space used, mail space used, and quota
information.  I did modify the sources to show percentage of quota used
when they start up pine, instead of just displaying when they go above the
soft limit.

(This is all on DG/UX, which can have a hard quota (cpd) but no idea of a
soft quota anyway).

Ken Weaverling          [email-masked]
    Manager of Computer Services
   Stanton/Wilmington Campuses of
Delaware Technical & Community College

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From: Elmar Kurgpold <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 09:24:08 -0700 (PDT)

> this to the lowest common denominator.

I have to agree with this.  What I have been doing when a user forgets
her or his temporary password is killing their pine process so they can
start another one.  It seems to be the safest thing to do in our
situation, but our sysadmins aren't on call after hours.

> prompting for confirmation of password.)

If you don't use the login password, typing the password twice is the de
facto standard, no matter how annoying it might be. 

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