Re: xscreensaver's questions ?

[Cedric BRINER <work@infomaniak.ch>]

> > the reason to this, is that sysadmin can unlock screensavers of users.
> > 
> 
> An ugly, brute-force method to do this would be to log into a VC or ssh in
> and (as root) kill the xscreensaver process.

from the man
 lock (class Boolean)
   Enable locking: before the screensaver will turn off, it will require you to type
   the  password of the logged-in user (really, the person who ran xscreensaver), or
   the root password.  (Note: this doesn't work if the screensaver  is  launched  by
   xdm(1)  because it can't know the user-id of the logged-in user.  See the ``Using
   XDM(1)'' section, below.


maybe this is a bug. but this is perfectly working on solaris where tey also use
screesaver in conjunction with gdm !

any idea ?

Ced.

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Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland