Deactivating password request after screen lock
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Sat Dec 20 20:41:41 UTC 2008
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:39:54 -0500, Weiner, Michael wrote:
> I have an unusual request from a user that I support, who would like me
> to deactivate (or disable) the password request that occurs after the
> screen is locked in an X session. He runs KDE and when the session is
> inactive, it locks the screen (as normal). And when he returns he finds
> it annoying to be asked for his password in order to unlock the screen.
> After a short period of explaining why this was a security FEATURE of
> the system, he still insists on having me do this. I have googled for
> some time and have come up empty handed and was wondering if ANYONE on
> this list had ever done this and how.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance
First off, any damn webgibberish in email is *evil* (as well as a
gross violation of netiquette, as you should know; on lists it's in
general, it's worse; and on this one it's verboten.
see
http://expita.com/nomime.html
http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html
http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
Just this once, however, if repeat *if* you mean what it sounds
like, it's easy.
The names differ slightly from release to release; in F9, F10,
and other recent ones, you simply click Main Menu > System > Preferences
> Look and Feel > Screensaver. (There are two. To be safe, do both.) In
the bottom left corner, make sure Lock Screen After is *not* checked.
This usually fixes it.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
I have precious (very precious!)
little idea where up is.
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