Lock Your OSX Computer

Fun tip. It is not obvious how to lock an OSX computer without logging off. After some searching a ran across a Gist which suspends the current session. This is equivalent to locking (Win+L) a Windows computer.

lock:

1 2	#!/bin/bash /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

If you save that into a file, you can make it executable by running:

Make lock executable:

1	$ chmod 755 lock

This works great since I always have a terminal window open. Presuming the file is accessible via the path. I can just run the following and it locks the Mac.

Execute lock:

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$ lock