Re: Cannot get dconf screen idle-delay working properly on RHEL 7.2

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Hi

On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:26 -0500, Kodiak Firesmith wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> Posting here because while there was a gconf mail list there is no
> dconf mail list - apologies if there is somewhere else I should be
> posting to instead.
> 
> Onto the problem at hand - No matter what I set via gsettings or
> dconf policy files, my session idle timeout kicks in at exactly 300
> seconds (RHEL default I gather) and locks the session.  
> 
> I am trying to determine the most correct way to set this
> programmatically (needs to be done via Puppet emplacement of files or
> 'Exec' commands) so that it can be pushed out to all our desktops and
> comply with STIGs.
> 
> Here is what I have (30 seconds was just to test that the setting
> worked, which it never did.  The real value would be 900):
> 
>  $dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/session/idle-delay
> uint32 30
> 
>  
>  $gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay
> uint32 30
> 
>  $cat /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-screensaver
> [org/gnome/desktop/session]
> # Set the lock time out to 900 seconds before the session is
> considered idle.
> idle-delay=900
> [org/gnome/desktop/screensaver]
> # Set this to true to lock the screen when the screensaver activates
> lock-enabled=true
> # Set the lock timeout to 0 seconds after the screensaver has been
> activated
> lock-delay=0
> 
> Even with all of the above settings set, it locks at neither 30
> seconds nor 900 seconds, but always at the RHEL default of 300
> seconds.  
> 
> I've grepped all through /etc/dconf/db for '300' trying to find a
> leftover setting that is causing this to no avail.  Does anyone have
> any ideas?
> 
> Here are my dconf/RPM version btw: dconf-0.22.0-2.el7.x86_64
> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
>  - Kodiak Firesmith
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Is this running as the given user, or are you trying to set this
globally ?

You might want to check out - https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf/Sys
temAdministrators .

Cheers
-ritz

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