This is actually the new default behavior. What you are seeing is called Remote Hotedesk Authentication. This was put into place to guarantee that sessions were appropriately authenticated during a hot desk. xscreensaver and Gnome had several bugs which sometimes prevented the locking of the screen.
See the bottom of this page http://wikis.sun.com/display/SRSS4dot2/About+Hotdesking and this page http://wikis.sun.com/display/SRSS4dot2/How+to+Disable+and+Re-enable+Remote+Hotdesk+Authentication On Nov 19, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Dominik Frey wrote: > Hi audience > > After having upgraded my installation to SRSS 4.2, screenlocking with > xscreensaver does not work correctly. > > The DTU just looks as if it has lost connection to the SR server when hitting > a key for "wakeup", reconnects > to the SR server (which takes some seconds) and then asks for the user > password using the sunray dialog. > > In /var/adm/messages the following can be found: > > Nov 20 06:40:54 jonathan xscreensaver[6120]: [ID 508707 user.error] > pam_sunray:get_auth_perm: ut_setproperties username returned -1 > > SunSolve does not any advice. Any ideas? Locking the screen has worked > correctly before upgrading to SRSS4.2 > > > Rgds, > Dominik > > -- > > ****************************** > > Dominik Frey > UNIX Systems Engineer > BANK CIC (SCHWEIZ) AG > Informatik > Marktplatz 11-13 > CH-4001 Basel > > Phone: +41 61 264 16 05 > Natel: +41 79 262 95 12 > Fax: +41 61 264 12 01 > Email: [email protected] > WWW: http://www.cic.ch/ > > Confidentiality Notice > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > all copies from your system. Bank CIC (Switzerland) Ltd., its employees, > associates and subsidiaries do not accept liability for any unintentional > damage caused by this email, its contents or any attachments nor any > unauthorised access to, or interference with this email as a result of it. > All emails to and from this address may be subject to interception or > monitoring for operational reasons or for lawful business practices. Bank CIC > (Switzerland) Ltd. is not obliged to treat any order transmitted by email. > The notice of cancellation of any contract where Bank CIC (Switzerland) Ltd. > is a party is not valid if transmitted by email. > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users Brad Lackey Datacenter Desktop - Technology Lead North America (720) 548-3339
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