> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield > Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > > Hi and thanks for the response. > > > > I should have stated more clearly that we use KDE not Gnome. The > reason for this is the oil & gas apps that our workstations users' use > work best under KDE not Gnome so to keep things standard, we use KDE > everywhere. > > > > On my workstation, I see these two processes: > > me 8220 7283 0 15:49 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/bin/kdesktop_lock --forcelock > > me 8221 8220 0 15:49 ? 00:00:00 > /usr/bin/kblankscrn.kss -root > > > > There is no gnome-screensaver process. > > > > I have tried just using the root password to unlock the screen saver > but this doesn't work. > > > > Thanks > > > > CC > > > > try marking one or both of those binaries setuid root and see whether > it > works. > > Then, you can > 1. Deploy systems that way > or > 2. Tell the SUN users it's a security issue and the gods will not allow > it.
Or just tell the SUN users to follow these steps: 1) CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a console 2) Login as root 3) killall -9 kdesktop_lock 4) CTRL-F7 to get back to the desktop. That would be what I would do in their situation... -- Sam _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
