Turn the monitor off... Honestly, what your asking is a way to stop sanity checking. On 4/16/07, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > > > > > Is their any way to lock your screen when logged in as root on FC6? > > > > 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. > > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > Bryan O'Neal > Cornerstone Homes & Development, Inc. > 4220 E. McDowell Rd Ste. #108 > Mesa, AZ 85215 > (480) 505-1900 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." -Napoleon Bonaparte --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss