:>The root user should ALWAYS have access, especially to the console. This is probably
I am not so sure about this. Imagine someone who is using cryptographic
file-system, or ssh-agent. Or sipmly someone who has a bunch of naked
women as background .-)
He certainly does not like the idea of root beeing able to simply type the
password and beeing able to peek at his present work, does he? Sure, root
CAN get to contents of his memory if he wants, but it involves slightly
more effort...
:>and oversight of the KDE people, because it does work in CDE. Killing the X server
:>will get you in but seems extreme for just getting past a screen saver ("I sure
:>hope Johnny saved his work!"). Another way you could try to extinguish the screen-
:>saver is to telnet into the box as root and kill the screensaver process; or better
:>yet, just hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login as root to do the same, then hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to
:>get back into X windows.
Try it :-) It kills the login-session at my machine. OK, I will see if
this can be enabled somehow, and yell at KDE people if it cannot. cu
later.
Denis
:>> "Standard" xlock is usually set-up in such a way that it accepts the root
:>> password as well. I think kde-locker can be configured to do the same, as
:>> well, but I am not sure what is it good for.
:>>
:>> You would certainly not want an user using another users account.
:>> Therefore, all the root could do would be to unlock the screen and log the
:>> first user off. However, the same can be done with:
:>>
:>> :~>just click then ctrl+alt+backspace and it will restart xwindows, and take you
:>> :~>back to the login screen...
:>>
:>> If you still want to have unlocking with root password, please e-mail me
:>> privately, and I will try to find out if and how this can be done.
:>>
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