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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