This is a difficult one, in a environment with many users, it's nice to
lock a screen so nobody could tamper with your applications. But it's
not so nice when an employee have left for the day and left the screen
locked. The administrator may as well have left, leaving no option to
unlock the screen in a proper way. The solution is to reboot the mashine
with all the possible trouble that could result from that kind of
violence. This is an actual scenario, their boss told this story over a
beer to me a few years ago. Their machines used Windows NT, and the
rebooting broke a machine a week on average. To my opinion, locking the
screen is unwise, better have the user to log out. Espesially, automatic
locking by screen saver is a source of problems.
Cincerely,
Sigmund
David A. Cobb wrote:
Running UBUNTU Hoary, GNOME 2.10.0
Please advise me which screen-locking application to use to make "New
Login" available. It was working, but a recent update has left it so
that only the user who locked the desktop can unlock it; a different
user cannot start a new session.
If it matters (as it may), I also find I cannot switch out to one of
the virtual consoles.
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Free at last! Free at last! Using Linux, I'm FREE at last!
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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