Keep operator terminal logged in, record access by multiple users

I have a terminal that monitors the system and can't be logged out.
Also, usage has to be accounted for on a per user basis. I'd like t
be able to keep the terminal logged in, but allow for the turnover o
the terminal usage across operator shifts.

Any ideas? I was thinking of modifying xlock so that username an
password can be entered to unlock the terminal, and a record made o
the event

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On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
<>, sheep99dog wrote:

>I have a terminal that monitors the system and can't be logged out.

I hope that the idiot who is running this web forum has provided a
place for additional information - such as the name and version of the
operating system you are using, but that information doesn't get to the
Usenet newsgroup where I'm reading and replying to this thread. There
are 38 "branded" UNIX, and that doesn't include the three *BSDs and the
several hundred Linux distributions. They _are_ somewhat different,
and each has it's warts and ways of doing things.

Why does your application have to be running on a terminal in userspace?
Start the application in the boot scripts (in a SystemV init scheme, try
/etc/rc.d/rc.local) - you can mail the data to root as needed, and/or
send the data to the console. There is no need for someone to run a
terminal for this, and depending on your unidentified operating system,
the information _may_ already be available. Try 'apropos accounting'
or 'man -k accounting' and see what is on your system.

>Also, usage has to be accounted for on a per user basis.

Yeah - that's the normal way of doing things

>I'd like to be able to keep the terminal logged in, but allow for the
>turnover of the terminal usage across operator shifts.

UNIX is not MS-DOS - it really does allow multiple users at the same time.

>Any ideas? I was thinking of modifying xlock so that username and
>password can be entered to unlock the terminal, and a record made of
>the event.

[compton ~]$ whatis utmp
utmp (5) - login records
[compton ~]$

If your O/S configuration doesn't put data in utmp, stick a line in the
X configuration script that runs in place of /etc/profile on login..

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