Newbie here, have looked using search engine and can find nothing revelant to my problem..
Using Linux
Here, I want to create a unix daemon (using C) that run to check user idle time, then if the idle time match the timeout, that console will be locked automatically
(user need to enter password to unlock it, and the password is determined in C code and not using real user password).
Here's the C code
and I want to do console locking mechanism in that bold part (strcmp ...)
I've tried to use printf and scanf and didn't work..
use exec to call shell script to read user input, just same.. won't work
is there any idea?
thx before.
develop_5889
Last edited by develop_5889; 11-05-2008 at 12:08 PM..
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