README
1Gone (C)1998-2010 Joe Marcus Clarke MarcusCom
2
3Gone is a terminal locking program similar to UN*X lock(1). However,
4unlike lock, it is more security-minded. If you leave gone running
5longer than you thought, it will log you out of your current shell.
6Lock just drops you back into your shell. Also, gone has the option of
7being installed setuid to root. If this is done, you will be able to
8have gone extract your password from the system password file/database
9instead of being prompted for it. For more info on gone, read the
10enclosed manpage.
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12Gone can also lock the terminal indefinitely. This is, of course, not
13recommended for shared systems ;-).
14
15To configure and install gone, do the following:
16
17% gunzip -c gone.tar.gz ; tar -xf -
18% cd gone-current
19% ./configure
20% make all
21% make install
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23If you want to enable the setuid possibility, run configure as follows:
24
25# env with_setuid=yes ./configure
26(or with *csh)
27# setenv with_setuid yes ; ./configure
28(or with sh derivatives)
29# with_setuid=yes ; ./configure
30
31# make all
32# make install
33
34If you'd like to read the manpage before building and installing gone do
35the following (on most systems):
36
37(either as root or normal user)
38% nroff -man gone.man | more
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40That manpage will be slightly less formatted than the version that's
41installed with gone, but you'll get all the info you need. If you have
42any questions, please email me at <marcus@marcuscom.com>.
43
44In order to clean up after a build, type ``make clean''. If you want to
45completely clean up (remove all the config.* files), type ``make
46distclean''.
47
48Gone is distributed without any guarantee or warranty. I'll help with
49any problems you may have it, but if your system gets messed up, please
50don't blame me. I've compiled at tested gone under Ultrix 4.5, IRIX
516.2, FreeBSD 2.2.6-8.1, MkLinux 2, Red Hat Linux 6.2, Digital UNIX 4.0D,
52Tru64 4.0F, Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 8, AIX 4.3.3, and Mac OS X/Darwin.
53It works well on all of them.
54
55Gone is distributed under the BSD license.
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57$MCom: gone/README,v 1.3 2010/08/01 16:12:28 marcus Exp $
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