Subject: Re: Keyboard locking in 3.87

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 09:54:45 -0800 (PST)

Actually, the keyboard locking was changed to avoid having to code for 
the myriad of shadow password schemes we would have to deal with 
otherwise.  Likewise, the disk space usage is impossible to determine 
when folders are mounted remotely via IMAP so we decided to take the path 
of least confusion...

Thanks for the report and sorry for the late reply!

--DLM

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On Wed, 20 Oct 1993, Ken Weaverling wrote:

> 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, 10 Nov 1993 11:52:34 -0800 (PST)

David, what is the status of the keyboard locking in 3.88?  Have you
changed it so the user types it in twice, or uses the system password in
some way?  Or are you saying that it *was* changed in 3.87?  Sorry, I
don't remember how it worked in previous versions. 

However, something is seriously wrong with the way it works now, that is 
the user hits "K" and types any password and the keyboard is locked.  I 
have had several calls where the user didn't even realize they hit K, and 
inadvertantly locked their terminal.  I hope it is not a big problem for 
you folks to change this function.

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