Issues w/ Gnome "lock screen" applet in FC5?

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Thu May 11 18:14:46 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 23:28 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   
>> Is there an issue with the "Lock screen" applet thingie that
>> plugs into the upper panel?  I tried enabling it, and while
>> clicking on it brings up the screen saver, it doesn't seem to
>> lock the screen at all (not in a password-protected way).
>>
>> I've checked "lock screen when screen saver is active".
>>
>> Click "lock screen" on the applet's menu only brings up
>> the screen saver.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> -Philip
>>
>>     
> Are you doing this as root where the screen can not be locked.
>   

Yes, I'm logged in as root...  Which seems to me when you MOST want to
protect a machine against unauthorized access.  Right?

-Philip





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