> I'm replacing a Solaris workstation in our data room. One of the > 'features' the Solaris guys particularly like is the ability for them to > use the root password to unlock a workstation if the person logged on is > not around and they need to use the workstation. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE is > not preferred as this logs the person out (they may be doing important > work). > > Does anyone have any ideas on doing this in EL5u2? If figure that it'd > be done through PAM but I've been unable to get this to work.
My first idea was: Doesn't it already do this? - It definitely did on EL4, but I don't see an evidence that this works on EL5. When the screensaver was xscreensaver, this was as simple as setting "allowRoot = true" in your .xscreensaver file, but I hadn't checked gnome-screensaver. And then I found this: http://markmail.org/message/gdopgs7pwcwwimpd#query:gnome-screensaver%20allowRoot+page:1+mid:g73o65rj2fwezaip+state:results Which seems to hint that gnome-screensaver needs to be SUID for this to happen. Which it isn't (at least on this one system). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -al `which gnome-screensaver` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 168628 Apr 2 2008 /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver I would test, but that virtual machine seems to have decided that it doesn't have a screen, so locking it will be a problem! -- Sam _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
