[KLUG Members] KDE screensaver

members@kalamazoolinux.org members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:02:07 -0400


>Not too long ago it seems window managers used Xlock to lock the screen.
>Xlock let you type the root password to unlock a user's machine.
>KDE doesn't do this, at least not by default.
>Is there a way I'm overlooking to tell KDE globally to check the root
>password also to unlock a machine?

If KDE is using xlock or xscreensaver, probably xscreensaver, it has nothing to
do with KDE and is a PAM issue.

See the xscreensaver stack file in /etc/pam.d