Robin Chatterjee wrote:
>
> Hi guys ( n gals ),
>
> I stumbled across some strange and interesting behavior while trying to
> lock screen while logged in as root.
> I was getting a message "locking not enabled" or words to that effect.
> Further research brought to light the fact that for locking to work
> xscreensaver must be running as the same user who is logged in. Finally if
> you try to run xscreensaver as root for security reasons it changes itself
> to run as nobody. The outcome of this is that root cannot lock the screen
> using xscreensaver. Now I know many of you will say that you shouldn't be
> logging in as root anyway and perhaps point out the uses of su -c
> but the fact is it's often simpler and more convenient to install rpms etc.
> graphically in which case logging in as root is the easy way out.
> Cheerio Robin.
>
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Hello Robin,
I use KDE on RH6.0 but I don't have any problems locking my
screen.Logically, wouldn't it be weird if the root is "less priviledged
" than the common user inthat he be not allowed to lock the screen ? I
know it doesn't answer your Q .. I am just making an observation. What
are you running, btw ? GNOME/KDE/After..?
Regards
Shourya
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