On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 9:49pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote >> >>> By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes >>> up from the screensaver. This can be disabled by each user, but how >>> can I disable this system-wide? Many of my users forget to do this, >>> which results in workstations being locked up. >> >> Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will fix that right up. I'm not a big fan of users leaving >> workstations unsecured when they walk away. >> > > Don't you mean CTRL+ALT+DEL? That'd work too, but the reboot is unnecessary. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will just kill the X server (and thus the user's session). X will then respawn itself and restart GDM. > I don't think the OP wanted a plaster, he wants a solution :) One person's solution is another's giant gaping security hole. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF