Hi again,
Good to know I'm not alone in this boat, I'll give a shot with a local
Xauthority and fall back to xlock in case I'm not satisfied with the
outcome. Anyway many thanks for the answers you all provided, this mailing
list sure is useful.
Merry Christmas to all!
Thomas.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:35:05 -0500 (EST)
"Thomas M. Payerle" wrote:
> I do not see any good ways to get around this. Allowing something
> w/out user's tokens read access to ~/.Xauthority seems rather
> questionable, plus awkward as needs some access to ~ as well. Could
> probably hack gnome-scr
On 12/22/2010 2:35 PM, Thomas M. Payerle wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Thomas Calderon wrote:
>
> We encountered the same issue when rolling out an updated desktop
> environment using Gnome.
>
> gnome-screensaver, for various security reasons, takes a multiprocess
> approach. The main locking pr
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Thomas Calderon wrote:
We encountered the same issue when rolling out an updated desktop
environment using Gnome.
gnome-screensaver, for various security reasons, takes a multiprocess
approach. The main locking process detects mouse/keyboard activity, and
then runs another
Hi,
On Dec 22, 2010, at 18:40 , Thomas Calderon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are also using Ubuntu 10.04 paired with AFS home dirs and I am facing a
> hard problem with Gnome. Opening and closing sessions work flawlessly, but
> when users lock their workstation at night, they can't unlock it the
> fol
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:40:57 +0100
Thomas Calderon wrote:
> The issue is reproductible for me using this approach:
> running gnome-screensaver in debug
> renew TGT with 10 seconds lifetime and lock
> wait 15 minutes -> the GUI is freezed
> killing in console gives back the GUI and I can r
Hi,
We are also using Ubuntu 10.04 paired with AFS home dirs and I am facing a
hard problem with Gnome. Opening and closing sessions work flawlessly, but
when users lock their workstation at night, they can't unlock it the
following morning. Of course their TGT and AFS tokens expire overnight,
whi
