On Monday 09 November 2009 08:12:14 you wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:09:00PM +0800, jam wrote: > > Hi > > on the various distros log-out-switch-user prompts for a password as the > > second user logs out and the first user is exposed again. Tried for weeks > > to disable this anal fettish but I cannot find where. Help please, > > anybody ... (This is just like lock on screen saver, but that is easy to > > disable) James > > PS please no naive lectures about how I don't want to do this, I do! > > To summarise, you want anyone to login with no password required? > (except maybe root) > > I think the best place to do this is PAM. You could set it so they > still need passwords via ssh but not the console gui (gdm/kdm).
Actually THAT is easy, this is much harder: UserA logs in (auto or with password) UserB comes along so UserA does logout->switch user UserB logs in to the new session, does their thing and logs out UserA's session is now exposed behind a password dialog. This gives her the sh-one-ts as userB could have done <ctrl><alt>F7 to browse her session before the logout, but now needs to enter her password to access her (UserA)'s original session. This looks exactly like the screensaver password dialog but I cannot find how sessionA is locked when switching to sessionB. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
