Lock Screen as Root

[Dan Lund]

Turn the monitor off...
Honestly, what your asking is a way to stop sanity checking.

On 4/16/07, Bryan O'Neal <BONeal at cornerstonehome.com> wrote:
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> Is their any way to lock your screen when logged in as root on FC6?
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> Let us say that I often log into my FC boxes as root. (Mostly to get VMWare
> WS 5.5 to do direct hardware access, but other things as well) Let us also
> pretend I like it this way and fully understand the risk I take and still
> believe that it is worth the risk.  That said, I would like to lock one of
> the workstations as root.  As we all know xscreensaver will not let me do
> this as there is a security bug that could allow others with counsel access
> to gain root without the root password.  Again, it is a risk I am willing to
> take (especially since if you have physical access you can gain the root
> password on FC6 using the install CD and Linux rescue; and again with
> physical access you can reset the bios password to) All that said, I still
> would like to lock my screen while logged in as root.  And I would like
> something that is reasonably stable, like running Beryl, VMWare, FireFox, or
> most other programs as root.
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> I have heard of ways to force xscreensaver to use the lock screen plugin as
> root, but have not been able to find anything in my google search to
> describe how.  Any Ideas?
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> Bryan O'Neal
>  Cornerstone Homes & Development, Inc.
>  4220 E. McDowell Rd Ste. #108
>  Mesa, AZ 85215
>  (480) 505-1900
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