-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 00:29 -0400, Erik Hemdal wrote: >> The "lock screen" operation in FC5 does not actually lock the screen >> when the user is logged in as root. I'm curious about why this is not >> considered a serious bug. When I log in as root, the Screensaver >> Preferences applet shows the "lock screen when screensaver active" box >> checked. It informs root that the screen will lock when in fact, it >> won't. >> >> I've found the following: >> >> On the fedora-list, Aaron Konstam noted that locking the screen as >> root is something you don't want to do, because you should not log in >> as root. I would agree with this. <snip> > I suppose another aspect of leaving root logged in but locked out is > that someone might walk up, see they're locked out, and restart X, > clobbering anything that you wanted leaving running. Incidentally there is a way to disable that: edit xorg.conf and add something like this: Section "Serverflags" Option "DontZap" "yes" EndSection or of course you can switch to a VT, log in and run vlock -a which will prevent VT switching back to X or anywhere else. > I do agree with you that the preferences shouldn't suggest that the root > user could lock the screen if it can't/won't. Ack. it should be possible to find out if someone is running the screensaver preferences dialogue as root. Regards Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCA RHCSS RHCX RTFM PDQ ASAP LMFAO -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEdySOamPtx1brPQ4RAt6zAJ9I3EWsdDvMa7/yP/xwT6taznG84gCeO48J ZFRyRK6eefiqlw+uCadN7Vs= =sQfg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
