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Allow running of arbitrary commands before and after authentication
Let the user execute any command just before and after authenticating. This allows for things like printing a different prompt each time, showing something just after unlocking, etc - within physlock's VT.
As a bonus, add an option to not do any authentication at all - just execute the commands while having locked the screen. My personal favourite is running sl with no way whatsoever to interrupt it :)
Are the commands run as the user whose password is asked or as the user who launched physlock (typically root, I suppose)? In my opinion, it would be nice if those were run as the user whose password is asked. What do you think?
@DexterLB Thanks a lot for the changes, they are very helpful to me! Now, running the following command works and the before/after commands are executed as the normal user:
PATH="" /path/to/bin/sudo /path/to/bin/physlock -b '/path/to/bin/echo "Hello, `/path/to/bin/whoami`"' -a '/path/to/bin/echo "Bye, `/path/to/bin/whoami`!" && /path/to/bin/sleep 2'
It would be nice to have an option to execute a command after inactivity timeout. For example, go to sleep if physlock is called but no activity happens after a certain amount of time.
