Sorry about the worthless unenforceable bull-crap... I usually turn that off 
and it really has nothing to do with our IT department.

Thanks for the suggestion though... I'll give it a shot in the morning. 
Although... if I go directly to the admin account, won't that just put me in 
the admin account?

On Oct 5, 2011, at 7:18 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:34, Scott Roebuck <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 10.7 (Lion) will by default, no longer allow anyone except the current 
>> console user to dismiss an active password protected screen saver. In 
>> previous versions of Mac OS X, it was possible to enter the name of any 
>> local administrator account credentials and bypass the screen saver, 
>> regardless of who was currently logged into the console. 
> 
> And this is a good thing.
> 
>> In this environment computers are required to be locked so IT maintains a 
>> local master admin account on all computers so that an IT staff member could 
>> do maintenance/troubleshooting at an end user's Mac locked with a screen 
>> saver. The end user is not required to be present to physically unlock the 
>> screen saver.
> 
> If you have fast user switching turned on, simply switch tot he wfmin account 
> without touching the user's login. I do this all the time.
> 
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> This does nothing to inspire confidence in your IT department. This worthless 
> unenforceable bullcrap should not be sent to a mailing list. What I will do 
> with this message is the same as I do with ALL messages containing this shit, 
> put it on a public facing web server for google indexing.
> 
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