A script to unlock/lock one's screen using a pre-authenticated USB Drive.
Developed by Chhatoi Pritam Baral and Rahil Momin
This application was developed in Hack Night Competition organized by Web and Coding Club. To know about other applications developed in Hack Night visit Web and Coding Club at GitHub
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It depends on udisks, dbus, python-dbus, python-gobject, and python-tk for the gui. Python2 only.
To install dependecies on an Ubuntu machine run the following commands in terminal:
- sudo apt-get install python-tk python-dbus
The other dependencies should be installed by default. If not, it's time to get a proper distro. :P
Clone the repository or download the zip file from Github Repository.
Install all the dependecies as mentioned above
To install :
- ./install.sh
To uninstall :
- ./uninstall.sh
Just place the two scripts anywhere in your path and call either of the two.
Changing options is acheived through the magiclock-admin script (both GUI based and command-line)
Features:
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Use any USB Removable media as a key to your workstation! (Got any broken Pen Drives lying around?)
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Convenience! No need to type in the extra-long password everytime (Especially if one is a security freak!)
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Also, no need to tell the script your system password (unlike some similar Windows tools :P )
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Just set the key, add the script to your DE's autostart list and forget about it
The script uses DBus to listen for UDisks signals when a device is either added or removed
Locking and Unlocking is achieved by DE provided mechanisms, thus it is extensible/flexible for any compliant DE. (All freedesktop ScreenSaver specification compliant DE's work OOTB)
magiclock-admin -h explains the usage
USAGE: magiclock-admin [-s SERIAL] [-l LOCKING MODE]
where SERIAL is the manufacturer serial of the device you want to use as key. LOCKING MODE is 0 for two-way operation, 1 for unlocking only.
upon successful exit, magiclock-admin restarts/starts the magiclock script in the background
USAGE: magiclock [-k]
-k kills the current running magiclock process
Chhatoi Pritam Baral
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Rahil Momin
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Copyright 2012 Chhatoi Pritam Baral pritam@pritambaral.com
Copyright 2012 Rahil Momin rahil.rules.you@gmail.com
License: WTFPL