Jimmy Fox wrote:
This comes up from time to time but I'd love a more enlightened understanding of this. What exactly causes the sessions on a Sun Ray Server to lock?
We simply rely upon the desktop screen saver. We don't do anything special wrt idle-time locking. We do attempt to directly invoke the desktop screen saver lock upon card removal, and we use utaction to launch utxlock for this purpose. Are you using smartcards?
I've got my screen saver locking disabled via xscreensaver-demo. However, we see the screen locks after a certain period of idle time.
Then either you didn't actually configure xscreensaver properly, or xscreensaver has a bug :-(
Also, xscreensaver is gets activated when you pull the card in order to lock the screen so thankfully there is something still triggering xscreensaver even if the user disables it.
Yes, this is done for security purposes. You can disable this behavior also, however - see the utxlock man page. This is very different from an idle-time driven lock. utxlock uses 'xscreensaver-command -lock' for this purpose.
Lastly, Is their a setting somewhere that sets this idle time?
Idle time locking is solely handled by whatever screen savers you have running, SRSS doesn't interact with this in any way. Note that, in a future release, our plan for hotdesking is to always invoke an authentication greeter similar to the NSCM greeter for smartcard sessions, which will eliminate the dependency on utxlock and screen savers to provide hotdesk session access security. -Bob _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
