1.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)lock.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 33.\" $FreeBSD$ 34.\" 35.Dd July 10, 2002 36.Dt LOCK 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm lock 40.Nd reserve a terminal 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Op Fl npv 44.Op Fl t Ar timeout 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48utility requests a password from the user, reads it again for verification 49and then will normally not relinquish the terminal until the password is 50repeated. 51There are two other conditions under which it will terminate: it 52will timeout after some interval of time and it may be killed by someone 53with the appropriate permission. 54.Pp 55The following options are available: 56.Bl -tag -width indent 57.It Fl n 58Do not use a timeout value. 59Terminal will be locked forever. 60.It Fl p 61A password is not requested, instead the user's current login password 62is used. 63.It Fl t Ar timeout 64The time limit (default 15 minutes) is changed to 65.Ar timeout 66minutes. 67.It Fl v 68Disable switching virtual terminals while this terminal is locked. 69This option is implemented in a way similar to the 70.Fl S 71option of 72.Xr vidcontrol 1 , 73and thus has the same restrictions. 74It is only available if the terminal in question is a 75.Xr syscons 4 76virtual terminal. 77.El 78.Sh SEE ALSO 79.Xr vidcontrol 1 , 80.Xr syscons 4 81.Sh HISTORY 82The 83.Nm 84command appeared in 85.Bx 3.0 . 86