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Linux Setting the screen to lock with password protection
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05-07-2006, 02:12 PM
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Linux Setting the screen to lock with password protection
Problem: Linux Setting the screen to lock with password protection for all users
Here we have powerful server for every user with X windows access. So we need the screen to lock with password protection after a specified time period for all logged in users of the system. Solution: => Login to system (for example as the tom user) => Use xscreensaver command to setup screen save and screen lock time => Now a file called xscreensaver created in my home directory ( /home/tom/.xscreensaver ) => Now copy this file to every user on system (you may need to login as the root). For example for user1: Code:
cp /home/tom/.xscreensaver /home/user1/ chown user1:user1 /home/user1/.xscreensaver Code:
cp /home/tom/.xscreensaver /etc/skel useradd user1000 passwd user1000 ls –l /home/user1000/.xscreensaver 
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13-07-2006, 05:56 PM
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I just tried this one and it worked like charm. Thanks for sharing with us.
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