On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Rudi Ahlers Rudi@softdux.com wrote:
It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people actually work for money and need to address client issues then I'm sure your colleagues won't be please if you make them loose all their work just to be an arrogant IT manager who wants to prove a point.
I don't know about you, but a user leaving his desk (for any purpose, other than going home) doesn't cause a security risk. I trust all our staff, and when Andrew goes on lunch I expect him to leave his PC unlocked.
- It's our property and he should have any personal stuff on there,
as per our NDA, that could cause problem.
- If a client, which Andrew was busy with phones in, I or one of the
other staff members would need access to that work.
So, in such a case I do think the OP has a valid question and it could be addressed more professionally than to restart X, or even the PC just to prove a point.
P.S. And I don't know the answer either.....
In our environment, leaving your desk without locking your computer/screen is punished with a disciplinary hearing and three such hearings result in dismissal. Having one person using another's account is considered a security risk.
I don't know the exact path but you can use gconftool-2 (or gconf-editor as a GUI) to set the screensaver not to lock (and mimick doing so by changing the screensaver preferences in "System-Preferences-Screensaver").