On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:41:13PM -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > We're migrating some of our users to FC3 from Windows (yay!). In > Windows, we use system policies to force password-protected > screensavers to turn on after a certain amount of idle time. > > We can't figure out an obvious way to do this with xscreensaver. The > man page explains, > > "Options to xscreensaver are stored in one of two places: in > a .xscreensaver file in your home directory; or in the X > resource database. If the .xscreensaver file exists, it overrides any > settings in the resource database." > > In other words, you can set this up system-wide, but users can > override it with their own settings. I can think of obfuscatory ways > to prevent that most of the time (break xscreensaver-demo), and > reactive ways to keep it from happening for long (startup scripts that > delete user settings). But we can't figure out the *right* way to do > it. Any advice? Without thinking about it too hard, I'd create my own system-wide .xscreensaver file. Then, at user creation time, create a symlink to the system version and make the symlink owned by root with no user write access. I obviously haven't tested this to prove that it works without breaking anything either. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
