Termlock

Termlock blanks a curses compatible character terminal (e.g. xterm, eterm, PuTTY, konsole, dtterm, etc ...) and locks it. To unlock the terminal a password must be entered. The password, or rather the password hash, is stored in ~/.termlock. Basically it`s like a password protected screensaver for character terminals. Written in Pure Python it should be immediately usable on any machine with Python and curses (or a compatible library such as ncurses) installed. Usagetermlock [-p | --password] The password switch prompts the user for a password (which must be confirmed) and uses this to Create the ~/.termlock hash file. To Lock the screen simply call termlock with no options. If no ~/.termlock file can be found then an error prompting the user to create it will be displayed Install Termlock uses the standard Python distribution utilities. So it should just be a case of uncompressing the archive and running:./setup.py install Obviously the user running this must have sufficient permissions to create a file in the install directory. To Do Currently termlock requires the use of the ~/.termlock file. This is because there is no standard way in Python (across all platforms) to access the system wide password information in /etc/shadow. If/when one is added to the Python standard library, termlock will be updated to support it.