> -----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

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