On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:59:21 -0400, Steve Huff shuff@vecna.org wrote:
- ssh in
- become root
- pkill -u <username of user who locked the screen> -f -x
"^xscreensaver -nosplash$"
Yes, I have done something si,milar to this in thepast but I was hoping that there might be away to accomplish the administraor override from the unit console of the system in question. I infer then that there is no such capability built into gnome, correct?
It appears then that we will have to disable the screensvar terminal lock function since too many people in our organization have the habit of just leaving that desk with their sessions left on. Is there an auto logout capability in CentOS-4 that I can enable instead, so that after say 10 minutes of inactivity the user session is terminated?
Regards, Jim
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 13:14 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
It appears then that we will have to disable the screensvar terminal lock function since too many people in our organization have the habit of just leaving that desk with their sessions left on.
I take it you want to unlock a station if a person forgets his/her password or when an admin needs access to it?
You know, considering this is Linux, you could script something using ssh keys that would let you do the xscreensaver kill remotely with one command.
The other worthy note is that if you're at the user's locked desktop, you might as well switch to a virtual terminal (e.g. vt1) and do the xscreensaver kill from there. I really don't see the problem with that.
Is there an auto logout capability in CentOS-4 that I can enable instead, so that after say 10 minutes of inactivity the user session is terminated?
Gnome 2.14 has an "auto logout". It only works if the user initiates the log out in the first place. Not sure what the point of that one is, unless it's meant to complete the logout if the person forgets to actually click "Log Out".
There may some app or script out there that does what you want. Search freshmeat.net, etc.
Regards,
Ranbir
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