On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:47 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
We deployed our first CentOS-4 based workstation this past spring
to see
if we can conveniently replace all, or at least most, of our MS-Win
based
user systems with Linux boxes instead. Generally this trial unit has
proved a success but there is one lingering problem that I cannot
seem to
find a straight-forward answer to: Is there an administrator
override to a
user's password protected screensaver terminal lock? So far the
solution
seems to have been brute force system resets and I am not happy
with this
caviler approach to what should be a simple, and safe, administrative
procedure.
So, is there an equivalent function to MS-Win's administrator login to
force entry into a locked terminal and make it available for others?
1. ssh in
2. become root
3. pkill -u <username of user who locked the screen> -f -x
"^xscreensaver -nosplash$"
i think that'll do it for you; try it on a noncritical system first :)
-steve
--
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an
improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v
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