Stuart, Thank you for pointing me at vlock : it does its locking job properly. Its nice to lock a terminal window, but not very useful if I can open another window from Gnome ! Thanks anyhow On Mon, April 10, 2006 6:04 pm, Stuart Sears said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Derwael wrote: >> Nathaniel, >> >> Thank you for your unerstanding !! >> >> As you mentioned, KDE is note quite Gnome. >> I can assign a shortcut to "lock screen", but as - I believe - Gnome is >> calling xscreensaver for that, I'm back to my original problem: >> xscreensaver does not run as root >> >> Anyhow, KDE allows indeed root to lock the session properly, so that I >> believe I will have to switch over to KDE > > Actually, no you don't. > Although you can if you prefer this. > If you really want to stop users from switching terminals or doing > anything at all while your processes are running: > install vlock (up2date vlock) > switch to tty1 (ctrl-alt-f1) > log in as root > vlock -a > > that should work fine. > I use this all the time. > > one proviso though - you may wish to change /etc/inittab and disable > ctrl-alt-delete as this will work anyway. > > HTH > > Stuart > > - -- > Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX > To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEOoH5amPtx1brPQ4RAp0UAJoCJhgCfggQGSpW3KItuDMiUCCAvwCfeFbL > b/o0kcN8gFy5zBWRpQ8LRCQ= > =+5Sd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Patrick Derwael T: 0479/80.50.79 Web and Co sprl http://www.webandco.be -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
