10:54 a.m.
Hi All,
I work at an organization with 4 Fedora 7 machines that are Desktop
computers shared among over 100 people. The problem is that NOBODY
remembers to log out when they are done with a particular machine. This
leaves the screen locked and the next user has to choose "switch user" to
log in, which ends up causing various problems when 30 people are logged
into a machine but only one is actually using it.
My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's screen
saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
This would at least let people log out of an open session that some
inconsiderate/careless person has walked away from.
Thanks!
12:07 p.m.
francis keyes wrote, On 01/28/2008 11:54 AM:
Hi All,
I work at an organization with 4 Fedora 7 machines that are Desktop
computers shared among over 100 people. The problem is that NOBODY
remembers to log out when they are done with a particular machine. This
leaves the screen locked and the next user has to choose "switch user" to
log in, which ends up causing various problems when 30 people are logged
into a machine but only one is actually using it.
My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's screen
saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
sort of...
assuming gdm is in use, make sure X accepts CTRL-ALT-Backspace.
or a cron that issues a machine reboot at 0001.
these are kind of rough on the "inconsiderate/careless" person's
application/unsaved data, but did they not ask for it?
i.e., use with appropriate care.
<OK, so it is a work around to the problem of the OP instead of an answer, but
I think it is better than not locking the screen>
This would at least let people log out of an open session that some
inconsiderate/careless person has walked away from.
Thanks!
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12:18 p.m.
francis keyes wrote:
Hi All,
I work at an organization with 4 Fedora 7 machines that are Desktop
computers shared among over 100 people.
...>
My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every
user's
screen saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
Depends on your Desktop Environment. For example, KDE includes a handy tool
called kiosktool, that can make many prefs preset as a site admin would
like. I'm pretty sure Gnome has similar functionality (somewhere).
-- Rex
12:33 p.m.
Rex Dieter wrote:
francis keyes wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I work at an organization with 4 Fedora 7 machines that are Desktop
> computers shared among over 100 people.
...>
> My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's
> screen saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
Depends on your Desktop Environment. For example, KDE includes a handy tool
called kiosktool, that can make many prefs preset as a site admin would
like. I'm pretty sure Gnome has similar functionality (somewhere).
Sabayon and Pessulus in GNOME would serve a similar purpose and are
available in the Fedora repository.
http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/
http://live.gnome.org/Pessulus
Rahul
12:25 p.m.
2008/1/28 francis keyes <fkeymo(a)gmail.com>:
Hi All,
My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's screen
saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
This would at least let people log out of an open session that some
inconsiderate/careless person has walked away from.
Thanks!
Greetings,
Have you tried using the gnome sabayon? Let me know if this helps
solve the problem.
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Virtually,
Tom Weniger
2:30 p.m.
Hi All,
Thanks for responses. Sabayon looks like the perfect tool but so far it
doesn't work.
I'll let you know if i get it working.
On Jan 28, 2008 2:25 PM, Tom Weniger <trweniger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/1/28 francis keyes <fkeymo(a)gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
>
> My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's
screen
> saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
>
> This would at least let people log out of an open session that some
> inconsiderate/careless person has walked away from.
>
> Thanks!
>
Greetings,
Have you tried using the gnome sabayon? Let me know if this helps
solve the problem.
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12:30 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:54 -0400, francis keyes wrote:
The problem is that NOBODY remembers to log out when they are done
with a particular machine.
Dare I say: Install a screensaver that crashes X when the screensaver
kicks in. That'll log them out automatically. ;-)
I'd imagine that one of the tutorials for setting up internet cafes
would have some hints about automatic timeouts and logouts, using a less
brutal approach. It has to be a common problem.
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12:28 p.m.
francis keyes wrote:
My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every
user's
screen saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
If the desktop is KDE, you can do the following:
Edit the following file:
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdesktoprc
The particular thing of interest is the following stanza:
[ScreenSaver]
Enabled=true
Lock=true
LockGrace=120000
Priority=19
Saver=KRandom.desktop
Timeout=1800
You can set Lock=false
You should also be able to use the KDE immutable option next to the
stanza name so that users cannot override these settings, eg.
[ScreenSaver] [$i]
Note though, that an rpm update may obliterate your changes, so you
could create your own kde profile and add it in /etc/kderc which is how
I've done similar things for our computer labs.
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Ian Chapman.
11:30 a.m.
Hi All,
We're using Gnome. Sabayon, sadly, is a good idea but didn't work.
I solved the problem of setting Gnome preferences globally by doing the
following:
1. create a new user testuser and set up that user's Gnome profile the way
I want it.
2. chmod -R a+rwx /home/testuser/.gconf*
3. mkdir /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS
4. cp -r /home/testuser/.gconf* /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS
5. rm -rf /home/*/.gconf*
6. create a little shell script called cpmult to copy the new config files
to everyone's home directory:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(ls /home);
do cp -rfpv /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS/.gconf* /home/$i;
done;
This is pretty round-about but it worked. I'm really surprised Gnome
doesn't have this functionality built in.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ian Chapman <packages(a)amiga-hardware.com>
wrote:
francis keyes wrote:
> My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's
> screen saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
If the desktop is KDE, you can do the following:
Edit the following file:
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdesktoprc
The particular thing of interest is the following stanza:
[ScreenSaver]
Enabled=true
Lock=true
LockGrace=120000
Priority=19
Saver=KRandom.desktop
Timeout=1800
You can set Lock=false
You should also be able to use the KDE immutable option next to the
stanza name so that users cannot override these settings, eg.
[ScreenSaver] [$i]
Note though, that an rpm update may obliterate your changes, so you
could create your own kde profile and add it in /etc/kderc which is how
I've done similar things for our computer labs.
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5:28 p.m.
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:30 -0400, francis keyes wrote:
I solved the problem of setting Gnome preferences globally by doing
the following:
1. create a new user testuser and set up that user's Gnome profile
the way I want it.
2. chmod -R a+rwx /home/testuser/.gconf*
3. mkdir /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS
4. cp -r /home/testuser/.gconf* /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS
5. rm -rf /home/*/.gconf*
6. create a little shell script called cpmult to copy the new config
files to everyone's home directory:
#!/bin/sh
for i in $(ls /home);
do cp -rfpv /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS/.gconf* /home/$i;
done;
This is pretty round-about but it worked. I'm really surprised Gnome
doesn't have this functionality built in.
For creating accounts with settings you want, preset, there's
the /etc/skel/ directory (skeleton files to build in each new
userspace). You'd make your default user config, then copy it into
there.
But for modifying existing accounts, you'd need to do something else.
Like you've done, or a tool existing already for doing the same thing.
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