>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On >Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain >Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:49 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: How to disable screen locking system-wide? > >I was going to leave this alone, but I feel this lowers to the level of >personal attacks and I'd like to address that. Yes, my response was a bit >glib (and tongue-in-cheek, which obviously didn't come across correctly). > >But that doesn't mean that the reasoning behind it isn't valid in some >situations, and it certainly doesn't make me arrogant or unprofessional. >As others have pointed out, there are industries and workplaces where any >unlocked, unattended workstation is a major security risk. Please don't >assume that your use case is everybody else's. And please keep it >civil. Suddenly came to think of Mordac, the IT-preventer in the Dilbert strip. ;-) One a more serious note, personally, if I run across an unlocked workstation and there's nobody around, I take a few seconds to start up Notepad (if Windows) or OpenOffice (if linux) and type in a message like "If I'd been a bad guy, your data would all have been gone and your homepage been set to www.bestialporn.com. //Your friendly Sysadmin" in real big letters, and then maximize the window, and lastly activated the (password-protected) screensaver, before I walked away. I've done this a few times over the years, and the message has usually been acknowledged and accepted with no questions asked. No need to restart any machines; that's just mean. Although I have been dreaming about doing that... ;-) -- /Sorin
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