Subject: does disable-kblock-cmd work?

From: [email-masked] (Geoff Hazel)
Date: 26 Jun 1997 21:11:40 GMT

We have a problem with users locking their keyboards and forgetting 
what they used for a password.  I saw where you could put in the 
pine.conf.fixed file a value for feature-list disable-kblock-cmd that
would remove that feature, but I can't seem to get it working.  We are
on Pine 3.95.  Alternatively, if there was a way to force double entry
of the password, that would cut down the probelms also. Is there a way
to get this working?

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:35:28 +0100 (BST)

You should, as you suggest, be able to disable the keyboard lock by
putting the right value in for the feature-list setting in the fixed
configuration file.  First make sure you just have the one entry for
feature-list in the file.  Next check its value is something like this:

	feature-list=disable-busy-alarm,
	        disable-keyboard-lock-cmd,
	        disable-update-cmd

Here I also disable the spinning "busy" alarm (needed because of problems
with Pine hanging on some of our IRIX systems), and also the Update
command.  You probably won't need to do these, but I include them so you
can see what it should look like if you _do_ need to set more than one
value for the feature-list.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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