On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:18 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Ross Walker wrote: > >> On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Bob Eastbrook <baconeater789 at gmail.com> 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. >> >> Let's try this again... >> >> KDE has a multi-user x login feature that allows another user to start a new >> session keeping the existing session active. >> >> It might take a little config mod'ing to get it working, but it works. It >> works best if there is lots of RAM. > > So does gnome (another gconf key: > /apps/gnome-screensaver/user_switch_enabled). Not tried it on CentOS 5, but > it works okay on Fedora 12. You have to be careful not to end up with > everybody logged in everywhere. I wonder if there is an auto logoff idle timeout feature? That would help reduce orphaned sessions. Set it for 8 hours of idle, then auto-logoff. -Ross