On 3/28/06, Wouter.Lamee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <Wouter.Lamee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > François, others > > "If it is someone else ask him" - that's too easy to say. What if there are 20 or 30 (or more) other people who can log in on that system? I'd have to remember all their passwords. Basically, I want to be able to get on the machine with my root password without killing X servers, existing logins, running apps, etc. > > Just like Solaris installations, where the root passwd can unlock any user's screen saver. If I am the root passwd owner, I want to be able to get on a machine without having to destroy parts of it. > > I checked on FC3, and there the root passwd can still unlock the screen saver. Is there some kind of setting to get this behaviour back? Or do I have to get the v4.18 from FC3 and put it where FC4's v4.21 resides - assuming it'll work? > > Any ideas, anybody? > > wlamee > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of François Patte > > Sent: 28 March 2006 15:30 > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > > Subject: Re: How can I allow screensaver unlocking by root? > > > > > > Wouter.Lamee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit : > > > Hey folks, > > > > > > Like the subject says: I have the standard screensaver in > > FC4 (I think > > > it's xlock), but the root passwd will not unlock it. How > > can I enable > > > root passwd unlocking on that screensaver? > > > > Don't understand too much your question.... > > > > To unlock the xscreensavers it is sufficient to use the > > password of the > > owner of the x session. If you are this one, it is your > > password. If it > > is someone else ask him. If his not here or if your relations are bad, > > kill the x session: Ctrl-Alt-Delete, you don't need to be > > root for this. > > > > -- > > François Patte > > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > > Université Paris 5 - Paris > > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Just tested locking the screen, then going to an alternate terminal window and logigng in as root. Then did the ps -ef command. I found a process called gnome-screensaver. I killed that process and returned to the GUI (Ctrl-Alt F7) and sure enough the screensaver was gone and I could use the system again. Jacques b.
