On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:47 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
We deployed our first CentOS-4 based workstation this past spring to see if we can conveniently replace all, or at least most, of our MS-Win based user systems with Linux boxes instead. Generally this trial unit has proved a success but there is one lingering problem that I cannot seem to find a straight-forward answer to: Is there an administrator override to a user's password protected screensaver terminal lock? So far the solution seems to have been brute force system resets and I am not happy with this caviler approach to what should be a simple, and safe, administrative procedure.
So, is there an equivalent function to MS-Win's administrator login to force entry into a locked terminal and make it available for others?
1. ssh in 2. become root 3. pkill -u <username of user who locked the screen> -f -x "^xscreensaver -nosplash$"
i think that'll do it for you; try it on a noncritical system first :)
-steve
-- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v