Arch Linux

You're too fast, danmilon. You could have at least gave me like 10 minutes to also update my own AUR package...

Version 0.4.5 is out.
See here https://github.com/muennich/physlock/issues/12

Thanks trickyelf. Version 0.4.4 fixes this.

The binary should be moved out of /usr/sbin.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/

Kind of late, but the systemd issue is resolved in version 0.4.3.

I've found recently that now and again when trying to unlock my session, I hit Enter and it just goes down to the next line; it does not say "username's password:". If I type my password at this point, it is being shown while I type! So it's not working properly. I have no choice but to kill my computer. Sorry I'm not sure what logs would be useful to you.

Just want to add that vlock -nsa works here, if that helps.

I tried systemd today and noticed that physlock does not work anymore. When started, it just switches to an tty and shows the normal login prompt, not the physlock one. Switching to another console does not work (as intended) and I have to login into the current tty and kill physlock which is stuck at 100% cpu load. The following error message appears when I kill physlock:
physlock: vt.c:102: error: could not deallocate console # 3: Device or resource busy

Can anyone else confirm this issue?

You can simply press the Return key at the password prompt, after using the `-u' option. The given user is then automatically selected. There's no need to type the full user name again.

Very good thanks. It would be nice to have an option to only allow a specific user to unlock, so I just have to enter my password.

thanks.