Re: How can I allow screensaver unlocking by root?

On 3/28/06, Wouter.Lamee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <Wouter.Lamee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
François, others

"If it is someone else ask him" - that's too easy to say. What if there are 20 or 30 (or more) other people who can log in on that system? I'd have to remember all their passwords. Basically, I want to be able to get on the machine with my root password without killing X servers, existing logins, running apps, etc.

Just like Solaris installations, where the root passwd can unlock any user's screen saver. If I am the root passwd owner, I want to be able to get on a machine without having to destroy parts of it.

I checked on FC3, and there the root passwd can still unlock the screen saver. Is there some kind of setting to get this behaviour back? Or do I have to get the v4.18 from FC3 and put it where FC4's v4.21 resides - assuming it'll work?

Any ideas, anybody?

wlamee

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Subject: Re: How can I allow screensaver unlocking by root?


Wouter.Lamee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
Hey folks,

Like the subject says: I have the standard screensaver in
FC4 (I think
it's xlock), but the root passwd will not unlock it. How
can I enable
root passwd unlocking on that screensaver?

Don't understand too much your question....

To unlock the xscreensavers it is sufficient to use the
password of the
owner of the x session. If you are this one, it is your
password. If it
is someone else ask him. If his not here or if your relations are bad,
kill the x session: Ctrl-Alt-Delete, you don't need to be
root for this.

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris 5 - Paris
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

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Just tested locking the screen, then going to an alternate terminal
window and logigng in as root. Then did the ps -ef command. I found
a process called gnome-screensaver. I killed that process and
returned to the GUI (Ctrl-Alt F7) and sure enough the screensaver was
gone and I could use the system again.

Jacques b.

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