Thanks Brad! I wasn't aware of this beeing a feature.

Unfortunately, those error messages look quite confusing to the
uneducated...


Rgds,
Dominik


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 07:38:45AM -0800, Brad Lackey wrote:
> 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
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