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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 00e6148f | 5 | .\" @(#)lock.1 6.1 (Berkeley) %G% |
| f5fe5f05 | 6 | .\" |
| 00e6148f | 7 | .TH LOCK 1 "" |
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8 | .UC |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | lock \- reserve a terminal | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 12 | .B lock | |
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13 | [ |
| 14 | .B \-number | |
| 15 | ] | |
| 16 | .br | |
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17 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 18 | .I Lock | |
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19 | requests a password from the user, reads it again for verification and |
| 20 | then it will normally not relinquish the terminal until the password is | |
| 21 | repeated. There are three other conditions under it will terminate: | |
| 22 | it accepts the password for root as an alternative to the one given | |
| 23 | by the user, it will timeout after some interval of time, | |
| 24 | and it may be killed by somebody with the appropiate permission. | |
| 25 | The default time limit is 15 minutes but it may be changed with the | |
| 26 | .B \-number | |
| 27 | option where | |
| 28 | .I number | |
| 29 | is the time limit in minutes. | |
| f5fe5f05 | 30 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 00e6148f | 31 | Kurt Shoens. Timeout and other features by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart. |
| f5fe5f05 | 32 | .SH BUGS |
| 00e6148f | 33 | None known. |