-----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart Sears Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:30 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: How to lock screen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Derwael wrote: > Stuart, > > Thank you for pointing me at vlock : it does its locking job properly. You misunderstood my purpose I think. vlock -a when typed on a virtual console (text-mode) will lock the *entire* console. No one will be able to switch back to your X display to start any other terminals without typing in the root password. It's much better in this regard than an Xscreensaver lock. Any user who knows how can break that and terminate your X session. (hint: lock the screen in KDE/GNOME as *any* user and then type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace together) However, vlock will definitely not work in an xterm (gnome-terminal, konsole etc) on an X desktop. Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX Good answer Stuart, heres another situation (and maybe a separate thread), the screen is locked by a user, who then goes on vacation (for example) and the screen needs to be unlock, currently (under RHEL 3 and 4), the superuser is unable to unlock the screen (using the root password), yet the xscreensaver man pages says that the root password will unlock the screen. Why can't root unlock user's screen? Currently we are remotely logging into the system and killing xscreensaver in order to unlock. Is there some flag that needs to be set? In the .xscreensaver file, lock is set to true. Thanks all ~smbinyon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
