On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > But the locked screensaver wants the *same* password that you log in with. > I'm having trouble understanding the problem... or is it that many of the > users *never* log out? Yes, users will sign onto a workstation, and then disappear somewhere in the building. They usually forget that they're logged on, which means the workstation is unusable by anyone else for several days. Restarting the X server is one solution, but it will kill any running jobs. If user Bob sees that Alice is logged on, but not doing anything, then Bob could safely log Alice out. Bob