On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:18 AM, John Hodrien J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ross Walker wrote:
On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook baconeater789@gmail.com wrote:
By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, which results in workstations being locked up.
Let's try this again...
KDE has a multi-user x login feature that allows another user to start a new session keeping the existing session active.
It might take a little config mod'ing to get it working, but it works. It works best if there is lots of RAM.
So does gnome (another gconf key: /apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled). Not tried it on CentOS 5, but it works okay on Fedora 12. You have to be careful not to end up with everybody logged in everywhere.
I wonder if there is an auto logoff idle timeout feature?
That would help reduce orphaned sessions. Set it for 8 hours of idle, then auto-logoff.
-Ross