-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Baker-LePain Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?
I was going to leave this alone, but I feel this lowers to the level of personal attacks and I'd like to address that. Yes, my response was a bit glib (and tongue-in-cheek, which obviously didn't come across correctly).
But that doesn't mean that the reasoning behind it isn't valid in some situations, and it certainly doesn't make me arrogant or unprofessional. As others have pointed out, there are industries and workplaces where any unlocked, unattended workstation is a major security risk. Please don't assume that your use case is everybody else's. And please keep it civil.
Suddenly came to think of Mordac, the IT-preventer in the Dilbert strip. ;-)
One a more serious note, personally, if I run across an unlocked workstation and there's nobody around, I take a few seconds to start up Notepad (if Windows) or OpenOffice (if linux) and type in a message like "If I'd been a bad guy, your data would all have been gone and your homepage been set to www.bestialporn.com. //Your friendly Sysadmin" in real big letters, and then maximize the window, and lastly activated the (password-protected) screensaver, before I walked away.
I've done this a few times over the years, and the message has usually been acknowledged and accepted with no questions asked.
No need to restart any machines; that's just mean. Although I have been dreaming about doing that... ;-)