krylock accepts root's password for unlocking the terminal.
vlock (a locker shipped with the Red Hat Linux distribution)
lacks this feature, this is one of the reasons I
decided to create this program. I hate when a stupid user
can lock all your consoles, and u must reboot your machine
or connect from the outside and kill (if you are
root, of course) the program(s) that locked your consoles.
krylock depends on the presence of the Shadow Password Suite, otherwise it *will not* run at all.
Oh, I forgot to tell you... krylock has no PAM support
yet, and I will not write a PAM-aware krylock because I
want it to run on non-PAM distributions like Slackware
(I do not have anything with PAM, I use Red Hat Linux
at home, but I think portability is more important).
If there is anyone interested in writing a PAM-aware krylock
based on this one, I'm happy to help him (her) as much
as I can, but I will not include that program in my distribution.
You may download krylock, use it and redistribute it 4 free if you meet the requirements of the
GNU General
Public License (GPL v2 or any later version)!
Have fun using Linux!
Cristian Contescu
xdarkprince@yahoo.com