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