Gary Winiger wrote: > Alan, > >>> 1) Neither xlock nor xscreensaver have such an unlocking feature. >> I don't understand this claim - xlock, xscreensaver & CDE lockscreen all have >> a feature to allow unlocking the screen with the root password instead of the >> locking's users password, mostly because our customers demanded it be there. >> (Whether it's on or off by default differs by OS rev & program, but they >> all have it - see "-allowroot" in xlock(1), "Dtsession*keys" in >> dtsession(1), >> and the allowRoot xscreensaver resource defined in LSARC 2006/446 which >> we apparently forgot to document in the man page.) > > I asked both you an Mahmood in the last 6 months about > xlock and xscreensaver. Perhaps I asked the wrong question. > Perhaps I misunderstood the answer. > > Yes, by default dtsession (which is being left behind along with > the rest of CDE ;-(, implements and enables root unlock by default. >
Do we need to care about CDE lockscreen? I am running snv_93, even dtlogin has no CDE option in login session selection. OpenSolaris certainly does not use CDE. It may be because Sun is phasing out CDE. -- aaron -- You know some birds are not meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright.
