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Bug 85605 - Lock display don't work as root
Lock display don't work as root
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
unspecified
Other Linux
: High minor
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-06-17 14:05 UTC by Frederic Crozat
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
xlockmore support for root display (3.26 KB, patch)
2002-06-17 14:06 UTC, Frederic Crozat 		none Details | Review

Description Frederic Crozat 2002-06-17 14:05:14 UTC 
When logged as root, since xscreensaver is disabled, it is not possible to
lock root display.

Patch attached to add support for xlockmore when logged as root
Comment 1 Frederic Crozat 2002-06-17 14:06:28 UTC 
Created attachment 9277 [details] [review]
xlockmore support for root display
Comment 2 Kjartan Maraas 2003-02-03 20:37:21 UTC 
Anyone want to review this?
Comment 3 Kjartan Maraas 2003-04-22 15:33:45 UTC 
Upping priority on this.
Comment 4 Kjartan Maraas 2004-04-15 22:04:29 UTC 
Do we want this for 2.6.x or punt to 2.7.x?
Comment 5 Kjartan Maraas 2004-04-29 17:44:04 UTC 
Mark, is this something we'd want to include?
Comment 6 Mark McLoughlin 2004-05-13 11:55:18 UTC 
I've never figured that out for sure - it seems really broken to use one
screensaver when logged in as root and a different one when logged in as anyone
else, though.
Comment 7 Frederic Crozat 2004-05-13 12:24:51 UTC 
Well, my point here is :
even if we know it is stupid to log as root, we should still be able to lock the
display when we are logged as root (I think it is a far more important feature
as root compared to a simple user). Even if it is not the same screensaver, at
least, display is locked..
Comment 8 Mark McLoughlin 2004-05-13 13:04:35 UTC 
> Well, my point here is :
> even if we know it is stupid to log as root, we should still be able to lock the
> display when we are logged as root (I think it is a far more important feature
> as root compared to a simple user)

Tell that to jwz ... not me :-)
Comment 9 Mark McLoughlin 2004-05-13 13:25:25 UTC 
Closing this as WONTFIX - if root should be able to lock the screen, then this
patch is merely a workaround for an xscreensaver bug.

(Yes, I do know about http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock ...)