How To Install vlock on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlock
on Debian 9.
What is vlock
vlock is:
vlock either locks the current terminal (which may be any kind of terminal, local or remote), or locks the entire virtual console system, completely disabling all console access. vlock gives up these locks when either the password of the user who started vlock or the root password is typed.
vlock is interesting on multi user system environments. vlock allows users to lock their sessions while other users can still use the same system via other virtual terminal.
vlock is very useful for users security.
There are three methods to install vlock
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vlock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install vlock
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install vlock Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install vlock
using apt
by running the following command:
Install vlock Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install vlock
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall vlock on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vlock
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall vlock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlock
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
Remove vlock Configurations and Data
To remove vlock
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
Remove vlock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlock
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
vlock have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlock
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.