Password-protecting fedora.

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jeff Allison
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 5:08 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Password-protecting fedora.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 19:01, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > I know about the built-in security, I was just asking if it 
> was possible
> > to pw-protect evolution the way I described because then I 
> wouldn't have
> > to lock my screen for leaving the computer for a few minutes and I
> > wouldn't have to log in with another account when somebody wanted to
> > borrow it for something...
> > If this was a corporate computer it wouldn't be an issue, I 
> would never
> > let anyone do anything with my account on a corporate 
> network, this is
> > my home computer though, and there are allways people visiting that
> > needs to check their mail, or print something out etc...
> 
> You could probably replace the evolution binary with a wrapper-script
> that has some kind of security check before executing the 
> actual binary
> I don't know of anything builtin that would do this, and you 
> might have
> issue with other programs that call evo is mailto: links, but I still
> think locking the display is simpler, for the other issues duno

Consolehelper?? But I wouldn't know how to get that configured
for 'per-user' but I know how to get it done for root.